“Lessons from Ancient Greece” is Subject of Philosophy Colloquium Talk Nov. 30
Contact: Doug Allen, 581-3860
ORONO — The University of Maine’s Department of Philosophy Colloquium Nov. 30 will present a lecture by John Russon, associate philosophy professor at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, and an expert in ancient philosophy and 19th and 20th century European philosophy.
Titled “The Elements of Everyday Life: Three Lessons from Ancient Greece,” the talk begins at 4 p.m. in the Levinson Room of The Maples on the Orono campus. The public is invited to the free lecture.
Russon is the author of Human Experience: Philosophy, Neurosis and the Elements of Everyday Life, which won 2005 Canadian Philosophical Association Award for Best New Book in Philosophy. He also is the author of two books on German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology and The Self and Its Body in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.
The 2006-2007 Philosophy Colloquium Series is funded in part by a grant from the Cultural Affairs/DLS Committee.
For additional information, contact philosophy professor and Philosophy Colloquium Coordinator Doug Allen at douglas.allen@umit.maine.edu or call 581-3860.