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Reframing Priorities: EXAMINED LIFE: PHILOSOPHY IS IN THE STREETS

Reframing Priorities: EXAMINED LIFE: PHILOSOPHY IS IN THE STREETS

 

09-24-2009

REFRAMING PRIORITIES: SCREENING OF EXAMINED LIFE: PHILOSOPHY IS IN THE STREETS
7:00 PM, MYERS AUDITORIUM, MCCOMSEY BUILDING

Astra Taylor updates Socrates’ idea that  “the unexamined life is not worth living” by filming modern-day philosophers discussing current issues like consumerism and ethics, man’s relation to nature, animal rights, revolution, postmodern anxiety, globalization, disability rights, and the role of philosophy in our postmodern world.  Featured theorists include Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwarne Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, and Judith Butler with disability-rights activist Sunaura Taylor.

Free and open to the public. Post-screening discussion facilitators include Dr. Jill Craven, Associate Professor of Film Studies, and Dr. Chuck Ward, Associate Professor of Philosophy.  Sponsored by the Millersville University Library and the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences.  Complements the CCERP Reflect & Connect Series.
 
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