{"id":8124,"date":"2020-02-12T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=8124"},"modified":"2020-06-14T23:57:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T22:57:18","slug":"the-philosophy-of-love-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/the-philosophy-of-love-actually\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philosophy of Love (Actually)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"justify\">Sarah Churchwell\/ Robert Hanks \/ Catherine Wheatley<!--more--><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"justify\">Listen <a href=\"https:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_philosophy\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/philosophy\/20200218_thePhilosophyOfLoveActually.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aKR6qA8uwwo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"justify\">Marking the death of Stanley Cavell, we explore the philosophy of film in general, and the rom-com in particular. Can we take philosophical lessons from film? From <em>Bringing up Baby<\/em> and <em>Roman Holiday<\/em> to <em>My Big Fat Greek Wedding<\/em> and <em>Love Actually<\/em>, what makes a film a rom-com, and can this genre teach us anything about the ethics of relationships?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Speakers<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/research.sas.ac.uk\/search\/staff\/889\/professor-sarah-churchwell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Churchwell<\/a><\/span>, Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities &amp; Professorial Fellow in American Literature, School of Advanced Study, University of London<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/roberthanks.typepad.com\/zoo_in_the_head\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Hanks<\/a>, Journalist and critic<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/catherine-wheatley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catherine Wheatley<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, KCL<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Chair<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/shahidha-bari\/\">Shahidha Bari<\/a><\/span>, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy &amp; Professor of Fashion Cultures, UAL<\/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>Sarah Churchwell\/ Robert Hanks \/ Catherine Wheatley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":8606,"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":[58,19,71],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-8124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-aesthetics","tag-ethics","tag-philosophyandliterature"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/03\/love-pod.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-272","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124","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=8124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11764,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions\/11764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}