{"id":6471,"date":"2019-05-20T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=6471"},"modified":"2019-10-31T18:47:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T18:47:21","slug":"philosophersbookclub-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/philosophersbookclub-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philosophers\u2019 Book Club: Deborah Levy&#8217;s The Cost of Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Edward Harcourt \/ Kathryn Hughes \/ Deborah Levy<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Listen <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_europeaninstitute\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/europeaninstitute\/20190531_philosophersBookClubLevy.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/span> or on <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SIDToko_tMs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">At the Philosophers\u2019 Book Club, we select a work of fiction or non-fiction and our panel discusses its philosophical themes. For this inaugural gathering, we\u2019ll be reading Deborah Levy\u2019s new memoir, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/295\/295634\/the-cost-of-living\/9780241977569.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Cost of Living<\/em><\/a><\/span>. \u2018Levy explicitly recuperates De Beauvoir\u2019s position, not only by engaging closely with\u00a0<em>The Second Sex<\/em>, but by going deeply into the philosopher\u2019s personal struggles to reconcile sexual love with intellectual liberty\u2019, says Kathryn Hughes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk\/people\/edward-harcourt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edward Harcourt<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford<\/span><br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/people.uea.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/k-hughes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathryn Hughes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">, Professor of Life Writing, University of East Anglia<\/span><br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/rsliterature.org\/fellow\/deborah-levy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deborah Levy<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">, Poet, playwright, author, and Fellow, Columbia Institute of Ideas and Imagination<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Chair<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/shahidha-bari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shahidha Bari<\/a><\/span>,<span style=\"color: #000000\"> Fellow, Forum for Philosophy and Senior Lecturer in Romanticism, Queen Mary University of London<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Harcourt \/ Kathryn Hughes \/ Deborah Levy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":6268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[58,54,84,71],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-6471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-aesthetics","tag-ethics","tag-feministphilosophy","tag-philosophyandliterature"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2019\/02\/4-Book-Clubplain-e1568488987230.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-1Gn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6471"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7198,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions\/7198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6471"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}