Jacob Howland, "Plato's Ring of Gyges and 'Das Leben der Anderen'"

The research project "Poetry and Philosophy" hereby invites you to Jacob Howland's guest lecture "Plato’s Ring of Gyges and ‘Das Leben der Anderen'".

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The lecture will take place on Wednesday 11 December at 4:15-6 pm in room 210 at Sydnesplassen 12-13.

Das Leben der Anderen will be screened in the same place on Wednesday 27 November at 3:15-5.30 pm. The film is about the surveillance regime of Stasi in the DDR and has won a number of prizes.

Jacob Howland describes his lecture thus: "This lecture explores the relationships between Gygean invisibility, poetic imagination and totalitarianism in Plato's Republic and in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's recent film."

Guest lecture

11.12.2013 - 16.15–18.00

Sydnesplassen 12-13, room 210

Vigdis Songe-Møller

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Jacob Howland is McFarlin Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, USA.

His work is centred on Plato and Kierkegaard. His books include:

Plato and the Talmud (2011)
Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith (2006)
The Paradox of Political Philosophy: Socrates’ Philosophic Trial (1998)
The Republic: The Odyssey of Philosophy (1993)

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