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LIVE from NYPL: GOING SANE: Adam Phillips and George Prochnik A Conversation
Writings on madness fill entire libraries, but until now nobody has thought to engage exclusively with the idea of sanity. What is sanity? A seemingly bland and nebulous state? The opposite of insanity? Madness is always present in our lives--in the chaos of our infancy, the rebellion of our adolescence, the insanity and irrational nature of our sexual appetites, the money madness that takes hold of us as the desire for wealth replaces our sexual desires. Sanity confounds us: according to Adam Phillips, it lacks the false allure of madness. Hamlet is glamorous, while the eminently sane Polonius comes off as a fool. Can the historical imbalance between sanity and insanity be redressed?
About Adam Phillips:
Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and the author of On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life; On Flirtation: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Uncommitted Life; Darwin's Worms; and Houdini's Box. He is the General Editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Freud. According to Daphne Merkin, "He is, as ever, an original and lucid spirit, a buzzing intellectual gadfly in the ointment of our easy answers."
About George Prochnik:
George Prochnik's forthcoming book, Music of the Quills examines the friendship between Sigmund Freud and pioneering Boston psychologist James Jackson Putnam (the author's great-grandfather)and how that relationship and dialogue shaped the acceptance and practice of psychoanalysis in America. In the 1990s Prochnik taught English and American literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he wrote on the history of psychoanalytic criticism.
LIVE from the NYPL: SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE in conversation with George Prochnik
“Why Jerusalem?”
Exploring Jerusalem’s hold over the imagination and politics of the world
Joy Gottesman Ungerleider Lecture, 2011
Simon Sebag Montefiore presents an epic history of Jerusalem in his most recent book, Jerusalem: The Biography. Montefiore is a best-selling writer and historian whose books include Catherine the Great & Potemkin, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, and Young Stalin, and the novel Sashenka. In Jerusalem, he portrays in rich detail the empires, wars, religions, and spirituality of the holy city's history, through the eyes of its rulers and inhabitants. Montefiore will be in conversation with George Prochnik, discussing the places at which Jerusalem's legends and realities collide, multiply and divide.
Simon Sebag Montefiore was born in London and studied history at Cambridge University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has written ten works of non-fiction and two works of fiction. His books have been published in more than 35 languages, and have received and been shortlisted for numerous literary awards in Europe and the United States. Montefiore lives in London.
George Prochnik is the author of In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise. He is currently at work on an intimate portrait of Jerusalem that delves into the city's natural and supernatural histories. Taking the reader into the wilderness found within the city, and describing its even wilder legends, the book will reveal Jerusalem’s unexpected sensorial riches, as well as the acute environmental pressures that make the city a prophetic microcosm of our global predicament.
This program is made possible with the support of the Dorot Foundation.
LIVE from the NYPL is made possible with generous support from Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund. The Joy Gottesman Ungerleider Lecture LIVE welcomes back George Prochnik, author of The Impossible Exile. This new book studies the life and work of Stefan Zweig, an icon of the Viennese cultural renaissance. George Prochnik’s essays, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous journals. He taught English and American literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine, and is the author of In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise and Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology. He lives in New York City. LIVE from the NYPL is made possible with generous support from Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund. A note to our patrons: LIVE from the NYPL programs begin promptly at 7p.m. We recommend arriving twenty minutes before the scheduled start time to get to your seats. In order to minimize disturbances to other audience members, we are unable to provide late seating. Become a Friend of the Library to receive 40% off all LIVE from the NYPL tickets. Join Now. Check out our LIVE Shorts here! Event Details Joy Gottesman Ungerleider Lecture, 2011 Simon Sebag Montefiore presents an epic history of Jerusalem in his most recent book,Jerusalem: The Biography. Montefiore is a best-selling writer and historian whose books include Catherine the Great & Potemkin, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, and Young Stalin, and the novel Sashenka. InJerusalem, he portrays in rich detail the empires, wars, religions, and spirituality of the holy city's history, through the eyes of its rulers and inhabitants. Montefiore will be in conversation with George Prochnik, discussing the places at whichJerusalem's legends and realities collide, multiply and divide. Simon Sebag Montefiorewas born in London and studied history at Cambridge University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has written ten works of non-fiction and two works of fiction. His books have been published in more than 35 languages, and have received and been shortlisted for numerous literary awards in Europe and the United States. Montefiore lives in London. George Prochnik is the author of In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise. He is currently at work on an intimate portrait of Jerusalem that delves into the city's natural and supernatural histories. Taking the reader into the wilderness found within the city, and describing its even wilder legends, the book will reveal Jerusalem’s unexpected sensorial riches, as well as the acute environmental pressures that make the city a prophetic microcosm of our global predicament. This program is made possible with the support of the Dorot Foundation. LIVE from the NYPL is made possible with generous support from Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowm
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The annual Joy Gottesman Ungerleider Lecture has been made possible by a generous grant from the Dorot Foundation.LIVE from NYPL: SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE in conversation with George Prochnik
“Why Jerusalem?”
Exploring Jerusalem’s hold over the imagination and politics of the world