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Wim Weymans
Professeur
Since 2018 Wim Weymans is the holder of the Chair in European Values at UCLouvain where he teaches a seminar on "Rethinking Europe" and a class on the history of European integration. He studied political thought and intellectual history (MPhil) at Cambridge University and modern history (MA) and philosophy (PhD) at KU Leuven. His research interests include: waysto improvethe EU (e.g. by rethinkingits use of "values" and the emotionstheyprovoke, by allowingmore opposition insidethe EU...), democracy and political representation, political parties, theories of human rights and humanitarianism, the migration crisis, a critical analysis of European higher education policy. He alsohas a long-standing interestin French political, social and historicaltheorypost-1945. He taught human rights history and theory at Columbia University and philosophy of law at the University of Antwerp (UAntwerp). He was a visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Chercheur invité at Sciences Po (Paris), a Fulbright scholar at UC Berkeley and a visiting scholar at NYU’s Remarque Institute. He has published in journals such as Constellations, Thesis Eleven, History & Theory, Modern Intellectual History and The European Journal of Political Theory.
- Diploma
Year Label Educational Organization 2002 M.Phil. Political Thought and Intellectual History University of Cambridge 2005 Docteur en philosophie Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
2020
Weymans, Wim. Deepening democracy through contestation? Lefort and Gauchet on May 1968 and its legacy. In: Tocqueville Review, (2020). doi:10.3138/ttr.41.1.121.
2018
Weymans, Wim. De symbolische dimensie van de democratie: Lefort versus Arendt en Marx. In: Filosofie-Tijdschrift, Vol. 28, no.4, p. 16-23 (2018).
2016
Weymans, Wim. Radical democracy’s past and future: histories of the symbolic. In: Modern Intellectual History, Vol. 13, no. 3, p. 841-851 (2016). doi:10.1017/s1479244315000141.
2012
Weymans, Wim. Defending Democracy's Symbolic Dimension: A Lefortian Critique of Arendt's Marxist Assumptions. In: Constellations, Vol. 19, no.1, p. 63-80 (2012). doi:10.1111/j.1467-8675.2012.00673.x.
2012
Weymans, Wim ; Hetzel, Andreas. From substantive to negative universalism : Lefort and Habermas on legitimacy in democratic societies. In: Thesis Eleven, Vol. 108, no.1, p. 26-43 (2012). doi:10.1177/0725513611421480.
2011
Weymans, Wim. Cultuurwetenschappen onder druk. In: De Witte Raaf, Vol. 26, no. 151, p. 17 (2011).
2010
Weymans, Wim. Democracy, knowledge and critique: rethinking European universities beyond tradition and the market. In: London Review of Education, Vol. 8, no.2, p. 117-126 (2010). doi:10.1080/14748460.2010.487329.
2009
Weymans, Wim. Review Article: The Merits and Limits of Using Foucault to Criticize Lifelong Learning. In: Studies in Philosophy and Education, Vol. 28, no.6, p. 589-596 (2009). doi:10.1007/s11217-009-9149-z.
2009
Weymans, Wim. Revising Foucault's Model of Modernity and Exclusion: Gauchet and Swain On Madness and Democracy. In: Thesis Eleven, Vol. 98, no.1, p. 33-51 (2009). doi:10.1177/0725513609105482.
2007
Weymans, Wim. Understanding the Present through the Past? Quentin Skinner and Pierre Rosanvallon on the Crisis of Political Representation. In: Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory, Vol. 11, no.1, p. 45-60 (2007). doi:10.7227/r.11.1.4.
2005
Weymans, Wim. Freedom through Political Representation : Lefort, Gauchet and Rosanvallon on the Relationship between State and Society. In: European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 4, no.3, p. 263-282 (2005). doi:10.1177/1474885105052705.
2005
Weymans, Wim. Über den Nutzen der Ideengeschichte: Quentin Skinners Verteidigung der republikanischen Freiheit gegen den modernen Staat. In: Leviathan, Vol. 33, no.3, p. 384-390 (2005). doi:10.1007/s11578-005-0048-6.
2004
Weymans, Wim. Michel de Certeau and the Limits of Historical Representation. In: History and Theory, Vol. 43, no. 2, p. 161-178 (2004). doi:10.1111/j.1468-2303.2004.00273.x.
2017
Weymans, Wim. Recht en samenleving anders bekeken. Filosofische perspectieven, 2017. 9789463442176.
2023
Weymans, Wim. A critical history of the use of “European values”. In: Regina Polak and Patrick Rohs, Values – Politics – Religion: The European Values Study. In-depth Analysis – Interdisciplinary Perspectives – Future Prospects (Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations; 26), 2023, p. 95-123. 978-3-031-31363-9. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-31364-6_3.
2023
Weymans, Wim. Young and Ambivalent. A New Look at the Recent Rise of European Values, Their History, Precursors and Critics. In: Marie Göbel and Andreas Niederberger, Cosmopolitan Norms and European Values. Ethical Perspectives on Europe’s Refugee Policy (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy), 2023, p. 61-87. 9781003245278. doi:10.4324/9781003245278-6.
2020
Weymans, Wim. From Marianne to Louise: Three ways of Representing the (European) People in Democratic Societies. In: Schober, Anna (ed.), Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts: Attraction Images, 2020. 9781138605886. doi:10.4324/9780429467882-3.
2019
Weymans, Wim. On the critical potential of Rosanvallon’s wide definition of democracy. In: Oliver Flügel-Martinsen, Franziska Martinsen, Stephen W. Sawyer et Daniel Schulz, Pierre Rosanvallon's Political Thought. Interdisciplinary Approaches, 2019. 978-3-8376-4652-8. doi:10.14361/9783839446522-007.
2018
Weymans, Wim. Religion, human rights and democracy in post-1940 France in theory and practice: from Maritain’s Thomism to Vignaux’s secular realism. In: Heynickx, Rajesh ; Symons, Stéphane (eds.), So What's New About Scholasticism? How Neo-Thomism Helped Shape the Twentieth Century, 2018. doi:10.1515/9783110588255-004.
2017
Weymans, Wim. Vluchtelingen: geweld, gevoel en recht. In: Filosofie van geweld, 2017. 978-94-6310-229-2.
2015
Weymans, Wim. At Home Abroad? International House New York and the Cité Universitaire in Paris: Cosmopolitan versus Diasporic Internationalism. In: Florian Kläger, Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging, 2015. 9783110408614. doi:10.1515/9783110408614-017.
2009
Weymans, Wim. From Coherence to Differentiation: Understanding (Changes In) the European Area for Higher Education and Research. In: Cowen Robert (ed.), International Handbook of Comparative Education, 2009, p. 569-585. 9781402064029. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6403-6_36.
2004
Weymans, Wim. Pierre Rosanvallon und das Problem der politischen Repräsentation. In: Oliver Flügel ; Reinhard Heil ; Andreas Hetzel (eds.), Die Rückkehr des Politischen: Demokratietheorien heute, 2004, p. 87-112. 3-534-17435-6.
2021
Weymans, Wim. A critical history of the use of “European values”. Workshop "Values - Politics - Religion: The European Values Study"; Universität Wien (Online, 10/02/2021).
2020
Weymans, Wim. Introduction. L’Europe et ses valeurs au cœur d’émotions contradictoires (Bruxelles, 05/03/2020).
2019
Weymans, Wim. Habiter notre monde européen. Journée d’études INCAL Habiter le monde (Louvain-la-Neuve, 28/03/2019).
2019
Weymans, Wim ; D'hulst, Lieven ; Fevry, Sébastien ; Gonne, Maud ; Mitterbauer, Helga. table ronde Transferts culturels. Les transferts culturels : paradoxes et malentendus (Louvain-la-Neuve, du 22/05/2019 au 24/05/2019).
2018
Weymans, Wim. Mensenrechten, jong en al versleten?. Vorming Plus (Kortrijk, 23/10/2018).
2018
Weymans, Wim. The legacy of May 68 and the question of democratic agency: Lefort versus Gauchet. Conference on the legacy of May 68, 9 June 2018 (Paris) (American University in Paris (AUP), 09/06/2018).
2021
Weymans, Wim. European values at the heart of contradictory emotions. Interdisciplinary perspectives. (), 2021. 28 p.
2021
Weymans, Wim. L’Europe et ses valeurs au cœur d’émotions contradictoires. Perspectives interdisciplinaires. (), 2021. 28 p.