About this Event
We are thrilled to host Clare Carlisle to celebrate the launch of Transcedence for Beginners. Carlisle will be in conversation with Danielle Drori from the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Carlisle's other book, The Marriage Question, is a Liz's Book Bar staff pick and one of the store's bestselling titles.
A lyrical work of philosophy that draws from the work of Spinoza, George Eliot, biographers, memoirists, and more to examine how wisdom and goodness are transmitted by individual human lives.
Transcendence for Beginners is an innovative book about philosophy and life writing, exploring how each practice might complement the other and so contribute to a greater understanding of human existence. Reflecting on writers and thinkers from Europe and India—such as Benedict Spinoza and Søren Kierkegaard, Ramana Maharshi and Marcel Proust—Clare Carlisle examines how deep, genuine wisdom and goodness are transmitted by individual lives. She considers her own intertwined pursuits as a philosopher and a biographer, as well as her roles as a mother and a daughter. Animated by the spirit of inquiry and the desire to share its rewards, Transcendence for Beginners is a generous, enlivening work by one of today's most original thinkers.
Clare Carlisle grew up in Manchester, and studied philosophy (BA, MA and PhD) at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1995 to 2002. She was Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool before joining King’s in 2011.Professor Carlisle is the author of eight books, including philosophical biographies of Søren Kierkegaard and George Eliot, and the editor of George Eliot’s translation of Spinoza’s Ethics. In 2024 she gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews. She is currently President of the British Society for Philosophy of Religion.
Danielle Drori, PhD, is Associate Faculty of literary studies at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a psychoanalyst-in-training at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. She has published essays about marriage and divorce, and her favorite fictional character is Gwendolen Harleth-Grandcourt from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Liz's Book Bar, 315 Smith Street, Brooklyn, United States
USD 11.49
