Let’s Walk: A Peripatetic Conversation Series with Philosopher Simon Critchley

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• Religion & Spirituality

From April through June, the Onassis Cultural Center NY will host a series of peripatetic conversations inside the Gods and Mortals at Olympus exhibit. In Let’s Walk, a lineup of surprise guests will join philosopher Simon Critchley to tackle contemporary topics inspired by Gods and Mortals at Olympus, and the mythology of the sacred mountain. Small groups of visitors will follow the interlocutors in a leisurely walk through the artifacts of Dion, and down the unexpected paths their minds will take.

Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research. His books include Very Little…Almost Nothing, Infinitely Demanding, The Book of Dead Philosophers, The Faith of the Faithless, Bowie, Memory Theatre and Notes on Suicide. He is series editor of “The Stone,” a philosophy column in the New York Times, to which he is a frequent contributor.

Mary Lefkowitz is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, emerita, at Wellesley College. Her many books on classical culture include Euripides and the Gods, Women in Greek Myth, Greek Gods, Human Lives, The Lives of the Greek Poets, and Not Out of Africa.