Biography Lafont graduated 'cum laude' with a Licenciatura in philosophy from the Universidad de Valencia in 1987. From there, she moved to Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Main), where she obtained her PhD in philosophy (Dr. phil.) 'summa cum laude' in 1992 under the supervision of Jürgen Habermas. At the same university, she was awarded the Habilitation in the year 2000. Cristina Lafont has held numerous positions as a distinguished lecturer or visiting professor in the English-speaking, Spanish-speaking and German-speaking academic world. Thus, she was Visiting professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (Mexico), Universidad Carlos III Madrid (Spain), Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), Lehrbeauftragte at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt. In 2008, she held a Secularity and Value Lecture at the London School of Economics,LSE Secularity and Value Lectures in 2009 the García Máynez Lectures at the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (Ciudad de Mexico, D.F.), in 2011 she held the Spinoza chair at the University of Amsterdam, and in 2012-13 , she was a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study Fellow-profile for Cristina Lafont at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Bibliography Global Governance and Human Rights (Spinoza Lectures Series), Amsterdam, van Gorcum, 2012. . Habermas Handbuch, Stuttgart, Metzler Verlag, 2009. Co-edited with H. Brunkhorst and R. Kreide. . (English: Columbia University Press, forthcoming; Chinese: Social Sciences Academic Press Beijing, forthcoming). Heidegger, Language and World-Disclosure, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2000. . (German: Sprache und Welterschließung. Zur linguistischen Wende der Hermeneutik Heideggers, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp 1994. ; Spanish: Lenguaje y apertura del mundo, Madrid, Alianza Ed. 1997. .) The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press 1999. . (Spanish: La razón como lenguaje, Madrid, Machado Libros 1993. . Chinese: Zhejiang University Press, forthcoming) "Sovereignty and the International Protection of Human Rights", The Journal of Political Philosophy, doi: 10.1111/jopp.12086 "Philosophical Foundations of Judicial Review", in D. Dyzenhaus and M. Thornburn, eds., Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law, Oxford University Press, forthcoming. "Human Rights, Sovereignty, and the Responsibility to Protect", in Constellations 21/1 (2015), 68-78. "Deliberation, Participation, and Democratic Legitimacy: Should Deliberative Mini-publics Shape Public Policy?", in Journal of Political Philosophy, 23/1 (2015), 40-63. "Religious Pluralism in a Deliberative Democracy", in F. Requejo and C. Ungureanu, eds., Democracy, Law and Religious Pluralism in Europe, London: Routledge, forthcoming. "Agreement and Consent in Kant and Habermas: Can Kantian Constructivism be fruitful for Democratic Theory?" in The Philosophical Forum 43/3 (2012), 277-95. "Accountability and global governance: Challenging the state-centric conception of human rights," in Ethics & Global Politics, 3/3 (2010), 193-215. "Religion and the Public Sphere. What are the Deliberative Obligations of Democratic Citizenship?", in Philosophy & Social Criticism, 35/1-2 (2009), 127-50. "Alternative Visions of a New Global Order: What should Cosmopolitans hope for?", inEthics & Global Politics 1/1-2 (2008), 1-20. "Meaning and Interpretation. Can Brandomian Scorekeepers be Gadamerian Hermeneuts?", in Philosophy Compass 2 (2007), 1-13. "Religion in the Public Sphere: Remarks on Habermas's Conception of Public Deliberation in Post-secular Societies", in Constellations, 14/2 (2007), 236-56. "Is the Ideal of a Deliberative Democracy Coherent?", in S. Besson and J.L. Martí (eds.), Deliberative Democracy and its Discontents, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp. 3–26.
Biography Lafont graduated 'cum laude' with a Licenciatura in philosophy from the Universidad de Valencia in 1987. From there, she moved to Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Main), where she obtained her PhD in philosophy (Dr. phil.) 'summa cum laude' in 1992 under the supervision of Jürgen Habermas. At the same university, she was awarded the Habilitation in the year 2000. Cristina Lafont has held numerous positions as a distinguished lecturer or visiting professor in the English-speaking, Spanish-speaking and German-speaking academic world. Thus, she was Visiting professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (Mexico), Universidad Carlos III Madrid (Spain), Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), Lehrbeauftragte at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt. In 2008, she held a Secularity and Value Lecture at the London School of Economics,LSE Secularity and Value Lectures in 2009 the García Máynez Lectures at the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (Ciudad de Mexico, D.F.), in 2011 she held the Spinoza chair at the University of Amsterdam, and in 2012–13 , she was a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study Fellow-profile for Cristina Lafont at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Bibliography Global Governance and Human Rights (Spinoza Lectures Series), Amsterdam, van Gorcum, 2012. . Habermas Handbuch, Stuttgart, Metzler Verlag, 2009. Co-edited with H. Brunkhorst and R. Kreide. . (English: Columbia University Press, forthcoming; Chinese: Social Sciences Academic Press Beijing, forthcoming). Heidegger, Language and World-Disclosure, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2000. . (German: Sprache und Welterschließung. Zur linguistischen Wende der Hermeneutik Heideggers, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp 1994. ; Spanish: Lenguaje y apertura del mundo, Madrid, Alianza Ed. 1997. .) The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press 1999. . (Spanish: La razón como lenguaje, Madrid, Machado Libros 1993. . Chinese: Zhejiang University Press, forthcoming) "Sovereignty and the International Protection of Human Rights", The Journal of Political Philosophy, doi: 10.1111/jopp.12086 "Philosophical Foundations of Judicial Review", in D. Dyzenhaus and M. Thornburn, eds., Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law, Oxford University Press, forthcoming. "Human Rights, Sovereignty, and the Responsibility to Protect", in Constellations 21/1 (2015), 68–78. "Deliberation, Participation, and Democratic Legitimacy: Should Deliberative Mini-publics Shape Public Policy?", in Journal of Political Philosophy, 23/1 (2015), 40–63. "Religious Pluralism in a Deliberative Democracy", in F. Requejo and C. Ungureanu, eds., Democracy, Law and Religious Pluralism in Europe, London: Routledge, forthcoming. "Agreement and Consent in Kant and Habermas: Can Kantian Constructivism be fruitful for Democratic Theory?" in The Philosophical Forum 43/3 (2012), 277–95. "Accountability and global governance: Challenging the state-centric conception of human rights," in Ethics & Global Politics, 3/3 (2010), 193–215. "Religion and the Public Sphere. What are the Deliberative Obligations of Democratic Citizenship?", in Philosophy & Social Criticism, 35/1-2 (2009), 127–50. "Alternative Visions of a New Global Order: What should Cosmopolitans hope for?", inEthics & Global Politics 1/1-2 (2008), 1-20. "Meaning and Interpretation. Can Brandomian Scorekeepers be Gadamerian Hermeneuts?", in Philosophy Compass 2 (2007), 1-13. "Religion in the Public Sphere: Remarks on Habermas's Conception of Public Deliberation in Post-secular Societies", in Constellations, 14/2 (2007), 236–56. "Is the Ideal of a Deliberative Democracy Coherent?", in S. Besson and J.L. Martí (eds.), Deliberative Democracy and its Discontents, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp. 3–26.
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2012–13
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68-78.
68–78.
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40-63.
40–63.
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277-95.
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193–215.
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127-50.
127–50.
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236–56.