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Dr. Zach Simpson (right) holds class in the functional art installation known as The Circle. Simpson will present research from his first book, Life as Art: Aesthetic and the Creation of Self beginning at 7:30 p.m. on April 2 in room 124 of Davis Hall. A book signing will follow the presentation. Both events are free and open to the public.
The time was the middle of the nineteenth century. Long-standing monarchies all over Europe were crumbling. New ideas about science and society undermined commonly held ideas about the human condition that had persisted for millennia. The great thinkers of that time and the decades that followed groped insistently for some bedrock concept upon which they could base their quest for meaning.
Dr. Zach Simpson explores this search for an alternative to certainty in his first book, Life as Art: Aesthetics and the Creation of Self. Simpson is scheduled to share excerpts and observations from his research beginning at 7:30 p.m. on April 2 in room 124 of Davis Hall.