Brooklyn Book Festival: On Truth (and Lies) in Conversation
Simon Critchley and Paul Holdengräber
Sunday 23 September, 2012
4pm, $0
Brooklyn Law School
250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY
Co-Presented by BAM and the Onassis Cultural Center NY. What is the truth? Simon Critchley, one of today’s leading contemporary philosophers turns the tables on Paul Holdengräber, the director/founder of "LIVE from the NYPL," to examine the art of conversation, digression, and sustained dialogue. Holdengräber—an expert in what he calls “cognitive theater†and a seasoned interviewer of major cultural and political figures, from Jay-Z to Zadie Smith and Patti Smith to Slavoj Zizek—joins Critchley to discuss how truth emerges from conversation.