Monday 9 June 2014, 9:00 pm
Income before the market
Work, welfare, the person
il Circolo dei Lettori, Sala Gioco | Via Bogino 9, Turin
The need for a basic minimum wage is one of the most burning themes of the present economic crisis. The debate proposed by CEST on this theme will take place on 9 June 2014 at the Circolo dei Lettori (9 pm) and will involve diverse voices, for background and outlook: Ugo Mattei (Professor of Private Law at the University of Turin), Luigi Pannarale (Professor of Sociology of Law at the University of Bari) and Gianni Vattimo (philosopher and politician). The speakers will be questioned by two young scholars: Giacomo Pisani, doctoral student at the University of Turin and author of the volume Le ragioni del reddito di esistenza universale (Ombre corte, 2014), and Paolo Furia, political activist and student of the relationships between philosophy and society. The evening will begin the cultural meetings of the Turin section of CEST.
Guests
Giacomo Pisani is a doctoral student at the University of Turin.
Speakers
Ugo Mattei teaches Civil Law at the University of Turin and Comparative Law at the University of California. He was Vice President of the Rodotà Commission for the reform of the Civil Code. He edited the referendum questions about “Acqua Bene Comune”. In 2011, he published for Laterza the essay Beni Comuni. Un manifesto which received the Benedetto Croce prize for non-fiction in 2012. His latest book is Contro-Riforme (Einaudi, 2013).
Luigi Pannarale is a lawyer and Professor of Sociology of Law at the University of Bari. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Italian Society of the Philosophy of Law, and he has taught at the Universities of Saarbrücken and Münster (Germany) and Budapest (Hungary). He founded the Osservatorio sulla detenzione amministrativa degli immigrati e l’accoglienza dei richiedenti asilo in Puglia (The observatory for the administrative detention of immigrants and the admission of those requesting asylum in Puglia). He is the translator and editor of the Italian edition of N. Luhmann’s Grundrechte als Institution (Diritti fondamentali come istituzione, Dedalo, 2002), and author of essays and monographs, among which are Giustiziabilità dei diritti (Franco Angeli, 2007), Lezioni sui diritti (Pensa Multimedia, 2010), and Il diritto che guarda (Franco Angeli, 2012).
Gianni Vattimo is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin; he has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Yale, Los Angeles and New York. He directed the ‘Rivista di Estetica’ and he has received honorary degrees from various universities in Europe and America. In 2006, he received the President’s Medal of Georgetown University; in 2010, he gave the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow. In 1997 he was nominated Grande Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica italiana. He is presently Vice President of the Academia de la Latinidad. He was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004 and from 2009 to 2014.