Bibliograph

Examined life, Sphinx Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with Ontario Media Development Corporation ; Knowledge Network and TVO present ; directed by Astra Taylor ; producer, Bill Imperial ; producer (NFB), Lea Marin ; written by Astra Taylor

Type

Label

Examined life, Sphinx Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with Ontario Media Development Corporation ; Knowledge Network and TVO present ; directed by Astra Taylor ; producer, Bill Imperial ; producer (NFB), Lea Marin ; written by Astra Taylor

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Not rated

Main title

Examined life

Oclc number

326861642

Responsibility statement

Sphinx Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with Ontario Media Development Corporation ; Knowledge Network and TVO present ; directed by Astra Taylor ; producer, Bill Imperial ; producer (NFB), Lea Marin ; written by Astra Taylor

Runtime

Summary

Examined Life takes philosophy into the hustle and bustle of the everyday. The "rock star" philosophers of our time take "walks" through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas. These places include crowded city streets, deserted alleyways, Central Park, and a garbage dump

Table Of Contents

Cornel West, part 1 : examining yourself -- Avital Ronell : paths that lead nowhere -- Peter Singer : the shallow pond -- Kwame Anthony Appiah : the cosmopolitan -- Martha Nussbaum : the capabilities approach -- Cornel West, part 2 : "truth as a way of life" -- Michael Hardt : becoming capable of democracy -- Slavoj Žižek : ecology as ideology -- Judith Butler & Sunaura Taylor : "what can a body do?" -- Cornel West, part 3 : rejecting romanticism

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Examined life, philosophy is in the streets