CHED Public Seminar: 'Living and Dying for Ideas'
Event Details
- Date:
- Thursday, 21 May 2015
- Time:
- 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Room:
- CCCS Seminar Room, Level 4
- Location:
- Forgan Smith Tower
- UQ Location:
- Forgan Smith Building (St Lucia)
- URL:
- http://www.ched.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=220926&pid=170139
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Narelle Jones
- Phone:
- 69492
- Email:
- narelle.jones@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- History of European Discourses
Event Description
- Full Description:
- What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive.
Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become not only an integral part of their biographies, but are also inseparable from their work. A 'death for ideas' is a piece of philosophical work in its own right; Socrates may have never written a line, but his death is one of the greatest philosophical best-sellers of all time.
In his book, Dying for Ideas, Costica Bradatan explores the limit-situation in which philosophers find themselves when the only means of persuasion they can use is their own dying bodies and the public spectacle of their death. While
rooted in the history of philosophy, the book is an exercise in breaking disciplina ry boundaries. This is a book about Socrates and Heidegger, but also about Gandhi's 'fasting unto death' and self-immolation; about Girard and Passolini, and self-fashioning and the art of the essay.
COSTICA BRADATAN is Associate Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University and Honorary Research Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author and editor of ten books, and has written for The New York Times, The New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Dissent, Boston Review, Christian Science Monitor, The Globe & Mail amongst others. Bradatan serves as the
Religion/Comparative Studies Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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