Resilience

David Bather Woods, null, Mark Neocleous, David Westley, Serene J. Khader (CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn College)

‘Resilience’ has become a buzzword, beloved of pop psychologists and workplace well-being programmes. But it also has an older history that includes the Stoics and Schopenhauer. So how do we foster resilience? Or should we foster it at all? Does a culture of resilience deny vulnerability and inequalities, or is it a practical way to cope with a tumultuous world? David Bather Woods, Serene Khader, Mark Neocleous, and David Westley trace the philosophical traditions of resilience and explore critical perspectives on its modern forms.

Speakers

• David Bather Woods, Senior Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, University of Warwick
• Serene Khader, Professor and Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture, CUNY
• Mark Neocleous, Professor of the Critique of Political Economy, Brunel University London
• David Westley, Associate Professor of Psychology, Middlesex University

Chair

• Shahidha Bari, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy & Professor, University of the Arts London

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