Renowned author Martin Amis is to examine the competing claims of literature and science as ways of explaining the world at his next University of Manchester debate on 1 December. The speakers will ask if science has overtaken literature as a way of making sense of the world.
(Media-Newswire.com) - The writer will be joined by high profile psychotherapist Adam Philips and philosopher and academic John Gray for the evening event in the University’s Whitworth Hall.
The speakers will ask if science has overtaken literature as a way of making sense of the world.
They will also discuss topics including the role of imaginative writing in chronicling and critiquing ‘scientific’ activities, and how literature can and should respond to recent controversies in bio-technology and genetic engineering.
Organisers at the Centre for New Writing expect a lively and stimulating evening which will conclude with a Q and A session, allowing members of the public and students to put questions to the panel.
Amis has been Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre since September 2007, and takes part in four public debates on issues in contemporary literature each year.
These complement the Centre’s regular 'Literature Live' readings, which showcase the best established and emerging novelists and poets.
Notes for editors Adam Phillips is a renowned child psychotherapist and essayist. He is the General Editor of the new Penguin edition of the selected works of Sigmund Freud, and a contributor to the London Review of Books.
John Gray is a prominent political philosopher, formerly School Professor of European Thought at LSE. He contributes regularly to The Guardian, New Statesman and TLS, and his books on political theory include Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals ( 2003 ) which attacks humanism as originating in religious ideologies.
‘Martin Amis Public Event: Literature and Science’ will take place at 6.30pm on Monday 1 December in the Whitworth Hall, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL.
Tickets cost £5 ( £3 concessions ) and are available from the University's box office on 0161 275 8951 or boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk, or via www.quaytickets.com.
For media enquiries contact:
Mike Addelman Media Relations Officer Faculty of Humanities The University of Manchester 0161 275 0790 07717 881 567 michael.addelman@manchester.ac.uk
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