Examined life Sphinx Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with Ontario Media Development Corporation ; Knowledge Network and TVO present ; producer, Bill Imperial, producer (NFB), Lea Marin ; written and directed by Astra Taylor.

Examined Life takes philosophy into the hustle and bustle of the everyday. The "rock star" philosophers of our time take "walks" through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas. These places include crowded city streets, deserted alleyways, Central Park, and...

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Corporate Authors: Sphinx Productions, National Film Board of Canada, Ontario Media Development Corporation, TVOntario, Knowledge Network (B.C.), Zeitgeist Films
Other Authors: Taylor, Astra (Screenwriter, Director), Imperial, Bill (Producer), Marin, Lea (Producer), Singer, Peter, 1946-, Appiah, Anthony, West, Cornel, Ronell, Avital, Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-, Hardt, Michael, 1960-, Butler, Judith, 1956-, Žižek, Slavoj, Taylor, Sunaura
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Distributed by Zeitgeist Films, [2009]
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511 1 |a Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Žižek, Judith Butler, Sunaura Taylor. 
508 |a Director of photography, John M. Tran ; editor, Robert Kennedy ; sound design, John Laing. 
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520 |a Examined Life takes philosophy into the hustle and bustle of the everyday. The "rock star" philosophers of our time take "walks" through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas. These places include crowded city streets, deserted alleyways, Central Park, and a garbage dump. 
505 0 |a Cornel West : examining yourself -- Avital Ronell : paths that lead to nowhere -- Peter Singer : the shallow pond -- Kwame Anthony Appiah : the cosmopolitan -- Martha Nussbaum : the capabilities approach -- Cornel West : truth as a way of life -- Michael Hardt : becoming capable of democracy -- Slavoj Žižek : ecology as ideology -- Judith Butler & Sunaura Taylor : what can a body do? -- Cornel West : rejecting romanticism. 
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