The Ethics of Immediacy: Dangerous Experience in Freud, Woolf, and Merleau-Ponty with Jeffrey McCurry
Thurs., May 1, 2025
5:00-6:00 p.m. ET
Online Webinar via Zoom and In-Person at Barbour Library
Registration is now closed. Please join us in person at the Library, Kelly-Orr Lounge (first floor).
In The Ethics of Immediacy, Dr. Jeffrey McCurry examines how Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, Woolf’s modernist criticism and fiction, and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, psychology, literature, and philosophy in turns embraced the risks and dangers of putting immediate experience as the center of humanity, of respecting, understanding, appreciating, and following the lead of immediate, spontaneous, pre-reflective, pre-evaluative, concrete experience in human life.
Dr. McCurry will be joined in conversation by Mark Russell, research and instruction librarian at Barbour Library, PTS.
