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Examined Life
Film / 2008

Examined Life

Directed by Astra Taylor
Documentary

★ 6.5/10Audience rating

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. 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.

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Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. 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.

Cast

Cornel WestSelf Judith ButlerSelf Slavoj ŽižekSelf Peter SingerSelf Michael HardtSelf Kwame Anthony AppiahSelf Martha C. NussbaumSelf Avital RonellSelf Sunaura TaylorSelf Astra TaylorSelf Barack ObamaSelf (floating on a boat in central park) Michelle ObamaSelf (floating on a boat in central park)

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