Prof. Veena Das lecture on Ordinary Ethics and Ordinary Realism: The Texture of Everyday Life
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
No booking required
Eschewing the lure of super concepts and instead striving for concepts that are humble, quotidian, imbued with the social through and through, Prof. Das hopes to show that instead of a super vocabulary of the moral it is important to make a movement of descent into the ordinary to ask how thought might be seen as infused into life rather than as standing out and judging events from a distance. Making what matters to us matter for our thought, also means attention to the particular and its normativity. Can such an ethics make claims to be constitutive of both an ethics and a politics ?
Professor Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck Psychosocial) will respond to the paper.
This is the 2018 MA Psychosocial Studies Annual Lecture, part of our 2018 Psychosocial Summer Programme. It is supported by the School of Social Science, History and Philosophy (SSHP) at Birkbeck, to mark the launch of our MSc in War and Humanitarianism, which is a cross-SSHP initiative.
Contact name:
Yasmin Hodge
Contact phone:
020 7631 6281