Examined Life @ The UWM Union Theatre

[Dave Monroe]

Documentary Frontiers

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, October 27, 28 and 29 at 7pm

Examined Life * Milwaukee premiere!

(Astra Taylor, Canada, 88 min, 35mm, 2008)

In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s
most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through
places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their
ideas. 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. Featuring Cornel West, Avital
Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwarne Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael
Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor.

http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/examinedlife

http://www.aux.uwm.edu/Union/events/theatre/calendar/fall2009/descriptions_fall2009.htm#anchor