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DESCRIPTION:Join SLE for a discussion between Professors Joshua Landy (Stan
 ford) and Alexander Nehamas (Princeton) on Philosophy and Literature.\n\nAl
 exander Nehamas is currently Professor in the Humanities\, Philosophy\, and
  Comparative Literature at Princeton. Before coming to Princeton\, he taugh
 t at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania. In ad
 dition to his books\, he has translated\, with Paul Woodruff\, Plato’s Symp
 osium and Phaedrus into English. At Princeton\, he has chaired the Council 
 of the Humanities\, directed the Program in Hellenic Studies\, and was the 
 Founding Director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. He has rec
 eived a Mellon Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humani
 ties\, and he was recently named a Brigadier of the Order of the Phoenix by
  the Greek Government. Influenced by the place of philosophy in the life of
  Ancient Greece and Rome as well as by Nietzsche\, he questions the transfo
 rmation of philosophy from a way of living into a purely academic disciplin
 e. Similarly\, he holds the view that the arts constitute an indispensable 
 part of human life and not a separate domain\, of interest only to a few. H
 e teaches courses on Plato\, Nietzsche\, the philosophy of art\, and intent
 ion and action.\n\nJoshua Landy is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of Frenc
 h\, Professor of Comparative Literature\, and co-director of the Literature
  and Philosophy Initiative at Stanford\, home to major tracks in Philosophy
  and Literature. Professor Landy co-hosts the nationally syndicated radio s
 how "Philosophy Talk." From 2013 to 2019\, he was the director of the Struc
 tured Liberal Education program at Stanford. Professor Landy is the author 
 of Marcel Proust: A Very Short Introduction\, Philosophy as Fiction: Self\,
  Deception\, and Knowledge in Proust\, and How To Do Things with Fictions. 
 Philosophy as Fiction deals with issues of self-knowledge\, self-deception\
 , and self-fashioning in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu\, while rai
 sing the question of what literary form contributes to an engagement with s
 uch questions\; How to Do Things with Fictions explores a series of texts (
 by Plato\, Beckett\, Mallarmé\, and Mark) that function as training-grounds
  for the mental capacities.
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LOCATION:Florence Moore Hall\, SLE Lounge
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SUMMARY:SLE Salon: Professors Joshua Landy (Stanford) and Alexander Nehamas
  (Princeton) on Philosophy and Literature
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