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VIRTUAL EVENT: Initiation and education: Wittgenstein, Cavell and children

10 February 2021, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm

Workbooks and papers on classroom table. Image: Katerina Holmes via Pexels

In this webinar, Professor Piergiorgio Donatelli, will explore Stanley Cavell’s treatment of initiation, conceived as a way of understanding our habitation in linguistic practices and forms of life.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Alison Brady

For more information and to register for the event, please contact Alison Brady. 

In the event, Professor Donatelli will discuss how the picture of initiation is not entirely helpful to understand both such habitation and the idea of education.

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Image: Katerina Holmes via Pexels

About the Speaker

Piergiorgio Donatelli

Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome

Piergiorgio has written on the history of ethics, contemporary moral theory, bioethics and on issues related to human life, as well as on J. S. Mill, Wittgenstein, Foucault, and Stanley Cavell.