‘Resilience’ has become a buzzword, beloved of pop psychologists and workplace well-being programmes. But it also has an older history that includes the Stoics and Schopenhauer. So how do we foster resilience? Or should we foster it at all? Does a culture of resilience deny vulnerability and inequalities, or is it a practical way to cope with a tumultuous world? We trace the philosophical traditions of resilience and explore critical perspectives on its modern forms.
Speakers
• 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘀
Senior Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, University of Warwick
• 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝗞𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿
Professor and Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture, CUNY
• 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗡𝗲𝗼𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀
Professor of the Critique of Political Economy, Brunel University London
• 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗹𝗲𝘆
Associate Professor of Psychology, Middlesex University
Chair
• 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗵𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗶
Fellow, Forum for Philosophy & Professor, University of the Arts London

Recorded on 22 February 2021
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