Examined Life (2008)

★ 6.5 1h 27m IMDb
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Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.

Examined Life

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Cast

Cornel West
Cornel West as Self Age 73 · Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, author, critic, actor, civil rights activist and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. West is the Class of 1943 University Professor...
Judith Butler
Judith Butler as Self Age 70 · Cleveland, USA Judith Butler FBA is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of third-wave feminist, queer and literary theory. She has taught...
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek as Self Age 77 · Ljubljana, Slovenia A Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and...
Peter Singer
Peter Singer as Self Age 80 · Melbourne, Florida, USA Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Appl...
Martha C. Nussbaum
Martha C. Nussbaum as Self
Avital Ronell
Avital Ronell as Self Age 74 Avital Ronell is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the humanities and in the depar...
Director Astra Taylor
Cast Cornel West, Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek, Peter Singer, Michael Hardt, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martha C. Nussbaum, Avital Ronell, Sunaura Taylor, Astra Taylor

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