When:
March 31, 2016 @ 7:45 pm – 9:15 pm
2016-03-31T19:45:00+01:00
2016-03-31T21:15:00+01:00
Where:
Royal Institution of Great Britain
21 Albemarle St
Mayfair, London W1S
UK
21 Albemarle St
Mayfair, London W1S
UK
Cost:
£18/£15
Contact:
The self is an intangible and perhaps illusory entity which is essential to our understanding of modernity. As a historical development it is relatively recent. Highly wrought modern day notions of the self would not be recognisable to antiquity, or even to a medieval writer. Literature presents a form of archaeology of the idea of the private self as a subject worthy of report, study and daily experience.
Join novelist Ian McEwan as he examines the self, drawing on philosophical debate and modern neuroscience, as well as the writings of Homer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Pepys, Boswell and Joyce.