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The Heyman Center Presents Lunchtime Lecture with Bernard Stiegler on Becoming a Philosopher in Prison
September 29, 2015 @ 12:15 am - 1:45 pm
TUESDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2015
12:15-1:30pm
The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Common Room
Columbia University
Bernard Stiegler is a French philosopher and activist. As a leading thinker of our time, Professor Stiegler has published a number of extremely important works of social philosophy and cultural history, concerning technics, economy, aesthetics, between other subjects. He has taught at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and directs today the Institut de Recheche et Inovation in the Centre George Pompidou, the most important contemporary art museum in Paris. He is also the president of the Ars Industrialis association.
Bernard Stiegler spent five years in a French prison while in his twenties. It was in that context that he began his study of philosophy. The influence of prison in his development as a philosopher is described in his essay “How I Became a Philosopher” in Acting Out.
During this lunchtime lecture for invited faculty and graduate students interested in justice studies and teaching inside prisons, Stiegler will discuss his experience while incarcerated and how the time he spent in prison shaped his philosophical thought.
Admission is by invitation only. Seating is first come, first seated.
Sponsors:
Heyman Center for the Humanities
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture
Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures