BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T124804Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190520T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190520T160000 SUMMARY:The Philosophers' Book Club: Deborah Levy\, The Cost of Living UID:20240329T124827Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Old Building\, London School of Economics and Political Science\, Houghton Street\, United Kingdom\, WC2A 2AE DESCRIPTION:
All welcome | Free to attend | First come\, first served at the door
\nAt the Philosophers&rsquo\; Book Club\, we select a work of fiction or non-fiction and our panel discusses its philosophical themes. For this inaugural gathering\, we&rsquo\;ll be reading Deborah Levy&rsquo\;s new memoir\, \;The Cost of Living. &lsquo\;Levy explicitly recuperates De Beauvoir&rsquo\;s position\, not only by engaging closely with \;The Second Sex\, but by going deeply into the philosopher&rsquo\;s personal struggles to reconcile sexual love with intellectual liberty&rsquo\;\, says Kathryn Hughes.
\nWe encourage you to read the book in advance\, but it is by no means necessary. Either way\, join us for lively discussion and thoughtful company.
\nSpeakers
Edward Harcourt
Associate Professor of Philosophy\, University of Oxford
Kathryn Hughes
Professor of Life Writing\, University of East Anglia
Deborah Levy
Poet\, playwright\, and author
Fellow\, Columbia Institute of Ideas and Imagination
Chair
Shahidha Bari
Fellow\, Forum for Philosophy
Senior Lecturer in Romanticism\, Queen Mary University of London