Seminars and Lectures
Can We Learn from Suffering? (Public lecture, London School of Economics, 24 October 2016)
The ‘most depressing lesson’ of suffering, Slavoj Žižek writes, is that ‘there is nothing to be learned from it’. Is Žižek’s bleak view convincing, or is there evidence to suggest that suffering can educate or even improve us? If so, do some types of physical or mental suffering have more value than others? Read more…