{"id":3178,"date":"2017-02-24T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2021-12-16T18:19:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T18:19:44","slug":"existentialism-is-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/existentialism-is-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Existentialism Is Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Bakewell\/ Andy Martin\/ Stella Sandford<\/h3>\n

The Maurice Fraser Memorial Lecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen to the podcast here<\/a><\/span><\/strong> or on YouTube<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Part of \u00a0LSE Literary Festival 2017: Revolutions\u00a0<\/span> with an introduction by Sylvie Bermann, French Ambassador to the UK<\/p>\n

6.30 – 8pm | Friday 24 February 2017
\nWolfson Theatre, LSE<\/p>\n

Speakers<\/strong>
\nSarah Bakewell<\/a><\/span>, Author of At the Existentialist Cafe<\/em> and How to Live<\/em>.
\nAndy Martin<\/span>, Author of\u00a0The Boxer and the Goalkeeper: Sartre vs Camus\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Lecturer in French, University of Cambridge
\nStella Sandford<\/a><\/span>, Professor of Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London<\/p>\n

Chair<\/strong>
\nShahidha Bari<\/a>, Lecturer in Romanticism in the Department of English, Queen Mary, University of London and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n

\u2018Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?\u2019, asks Martin Heidegger in his Introduction to Metaphysics<\/em>. In this panel, we explore the ideas of being and nothing as described by existentialism\u2019s most famous thinkers: Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus. We ask what is the allure of the existentialists that their reputations should endure in popular and contemporary culture? And how is it that existentialist philosophy can be, at once, avidly consumed by modern audiences and unapologetically esoteric? Coffee, French cigarettes, and black polo necks not provided; intelligent discussion and provocative questions most definitely are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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