Dr Keohane will examine the consequences of living in the age of ‘Anglobalisation’ for philosophy and the world at large. Central to this is the problem that English linguistic hegemony can serve, on the one hand, as a potentially useful vehicle for the universal diffusion of philosophical discourse and, on the other hand, that in the absence of a genuine ‘universal characteristic,’ the dominance of one tongue in philosophy can threaten to produce unjust forms of influence and monopoly that philosophy is supposed to challenge, and from which it is meant to liberate us.
Oisín Keohane is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. Previously, he was a NRF Free-Standing Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Johannesburg (2012) and an IASH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2013).