NJHN October 26 Program with Avram Alpert: What Could a Good-Enough Future Look Like?

 

Our speaker this month is Avram Alpert, author of The Good-Enough Life. 

In 2022, Avram Alpert released his book, The Good-Enough Life, in which he explores how an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious society. We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. Alpert explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order, and reveals how another way of life is possible–a good-enough life for all. As we come to terms with our more uncertain world, with AI technology having the potential to be both an opportunity and a threat, what could a good-enough future look like?

This is a hybrid event in-person at the Monroe Twp Public Library in Monroe Twp and via Zoom. Avram will present via Zoom. For Zoom participants, register in advance at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/WhoAh5_fSECUD1EL0w8qqQ
After registering you’ll receive a confirmation email from Zoom with the link to join the meeting.

Avram (Avi) Alpert is the Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in NYC, and teaches writing at Princeton University. He is the author of three books: The Good-Enough Life (Princeton University Press, 2022), Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki (SUNY Press, 2019) and A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well without Perfection (Columbia University Press, 2021). From 2014-2021 he was also co-editor of Shifter Magazine, a journal of art, fiction, and philosophy. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. His work has been discussed in the Atlantic, the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Irish Times, the LA Review of Books, Vogue Japan, and elsewhere.

The program will start at 1:30 PM in the Program Room and a Q&A session will follow the talk. Free and open to the public. Please feel free to share the event with anyone you think would be interested. Everyone is welcome to join us after the meeting for an early dinner at a local restaurant.

Disclaimer: The views, information, and opinions expressed by our program speakers are solely their own and are not expressly shared or endorsed by New Jersey Humanist Network. The primary purpose of our speaker programs is to educate, inform and stimulate conversation.