[SydPhil] Reminder: Agora Speaker Series UOW – Professor Alexandre Lefebvre – Thursday 16 May, 3.30pm, 20-4

[Elena Walsh]

Reminder:

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Dear all,


The next Agora Speaker Series talk at the University of Wollongong will be
given by Professor Alexandre Lefebvre of Sydney University, in Building
20-4, May 16 at 3.30pm. This is an in-person talk. All welcome!

*Liberalism as a Way of Life*
Alexandre Lefebvre

This presentation is based on my forthcoming book, *Liberalism as a Way of
Life*, and about how liberal values and practices can be the basis for a
personal worldview, way of living, and spiritual orientation. You don’t
have to be liberal and something else, such as Christian, Buddhist,
Kantian, hedonist, utilitarian, or whatever else. It is fully possible and
rewarding to be liberal through and through. This means that the values and
attitudes enshrined in liberal political institutions, and ubiquitous in
the background culture of liberal democracies – such as reciprocity,
tolerance, personal freedom, impartiality, equality of opportunity, irony,
and the like – have the potential to inform a much more general
sensibility, one that is supple enough to be realized in all different
aspects of life: from family to the workplace, from friendship to enmity,
from humour to outrage, and everything in between.

Alexandre Lefebvre is Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the
University of Sydney. He is the author of *Liberalism as a Way of
Life* (Princeton
2024), *Human Rights and the Care of the Self* (Duke 2018), *Human Rights
as a Way of Life: on Bergson’s Political Philosophy* (Stanford 2013), and *The
Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza* (Stanford 2008).

Warm regards,

School of Liberal Arts

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