The Conference took place in the Faculty of Letters during the months of November and December 2006.

The aim of the conference was to study in depth the intellectual background of one of the main ideological currents of today, explaining the philosophical foundations of neoconservatism, studying the arguments put forward by the philosophers who inspired neoconservatism, contrasting the reading made by philosophers who inspired the neoconservatism of certain classical authors of philosophy and contrasting neoconservatism with classical conservatism, with which they present a diffuse or tense relationship, and with political liberalism.

The programme of the Conference was as follows:

WORKSHOP
Friday 10th November

• Some difficulties of conservatism regarding M. Oakeshott, by Joan Vergés (UdG)
• Carl Schmitt, Hobbes interpreter: use or abuse? by José Olesti (UdG)
• Leo Strauss and the Overcoming of the Liberal Horizon (1932-1935), by Josep M. Ruiz-Simon (UdG)
• About Ernst Jünger, the machine and the symbols, by Ramon Alcoberro (UdG)
• The discussion between A. Kojève and L. Strauss, by Josep Maria Esquirol
• Cons versus neocons: the return of Fukuyama, by Josep Maria Terricabras (UdG)

CONFERENCES

Tuesday, 21st November

• Alexandre Kojève, o com es distreu un hegelià al segle XX, by Josep Maria Esquirol (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Progressisme cultural i conservadorisme polític, by José Manuel Bermudo (Universitat de Barcelona)

Thursday, 30th November

• Neoconservatorismo, Unilateralismo, Multilateralismo, by Antonio Negri (Political scientist and former professor of political science at the universities of Paris and Padua)  (see press releases)

Tuesday, December 5th

• Neoconservatism-a new radicalism on the Right, byJohn Gray (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Friday, 16th March 2007

• Tres conservadurismos, by Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón (Member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences)

The papers were published in the book Cons i neocons: el rerefons filosòfic. See here the press dossier.