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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 \u2013 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2<\/b><\/span>
Free<\/b>, 12-Hour, Overnight Event Featuring Music, Rare Films, <\/span><\/div>\n
VR, Puppets and More Than 60 Speakers and Performers<\/span>
Central Library<\/b> 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn<\/span>
Tickets<\/b>: Free, 12-Hour, Overnight Event<\/span><\/div>\n
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For the fourth consecutive year, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy will present the hallmark edition of A Night of Philosophy and Ideas, bringing philosophers, authors, artists, and musicians from around the world together with the New York community through a series of intellectual and thought-provoking conversations and performances.<\/span>

The event runs from sundown to sunrise\u2014the only such event in the nation to do so\u2014as the concept of the Institut fran\u00e7ais\u2019 global La Nuit des id\u00e9es expands across the country to 7 cities. The nation-wide events are modeled after the New York intellectual marathon, created by the Brooklyn Public Library and the French Cultural Services in 2017. Last year, the event in New York drew more than 7000 participants, with an additional 6000 views on livestream.<\/span>

Featuring philosophers, intellectuals, researchers and artists, the event will explore the overarching theme \u201cTo live\u201d (in French, \u00catre vivant) and the most pressing issues in contemporary society in simultaneous conversations, performances and screenings. The keynote speech, Good Economics for Hard Times, will be delivered by the 2019 Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo.<\/span>

This year, Polish philosopher Tomasz Stawiszynski <\/b>will have a talk at 1:30am: On the Importance of Sadness.<\/i><\/b> There is less and less space for sadness in contemporary culture. We are being constantly told to be positive, to always look forward with hope and under no circumstances to worry. Being sad means that we may inevitably need a therapist, a coach or at least some bestselling guidebook, which would help us regain our joy. In today’s world, sadness is considered a system error, an unwelcome feeling, something embarrassing requiring correction. The availability of services and goods promoting positive thinking is gigantic. Meanwhile, depression statistics are rising dramatically. How to explain this paradox? Maybe this relationship is not accidental. The structural reduction of space for the experience of loss and melancholia \u2013 the disappearance of mourning, the emphasis on the fastest possible return to efficiency \u2013 is exactly the reason why we become more and more helpless. When we face the death of a loved one, divorce, or even some minor failure, we become paralyzed. This topic has been recently discussed, not only by philosophers and sociologists, but also by evolutionary psychologists: difficult and unpleasant emotions are necessary equipment. They perform many psychologically important functions, like warning of danger or creating the ability to be compassionate towards others, to name but a few. Eliminating them is a huge mistake, heavy with consequences for the individual as well as for society as a whole.<\/span>

In the lecture, he will show that we need more recognition for sadness today, partly because of what we\u2019ve done to the planet. And thus we need more compassion and understanding for the suffering and helplessness of all living nature. And sadness is a key experience for developing that.<\/span>


Tomasz Stawiszynski <\/b>is a philosopher, essayist, and author of the bestselling book, Clashes with Freud: Myths, Temptations and Traps of Psychotherapy, as well as two collections of poetry. Stawiszynski was previously head of the national department of Newsweek, Polish edition, host of the live show Alternative Studio, dedicated to modern art and philosophy, and co-host of the Reading Room for the Polish television channel TVP Kultura. He also hosted The Philosopher’s Sunday on Polish Radio RDC. He is the host of Philosopher’s Hour for the talk-radio station TOK FM, and of the Internet podcast Our Internal Conflicts, and a staff writer for Przekroj \u2013 one of the oldest Polish cultural magazines.<\/span>


2020 Night of Philosophy & Ideas is co-presented by Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. The program is made possible with major support from the Open Society Foundations. Generous support is provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Institut fran\u00e7ais, Sixpoint Brewery, the Wythe Hotel, Air France, FACE Foundation, and event partner National Sawdust. WNYC is the Official Media Partner of the 2020 BPL Presents Season.<\/i><\/span>

Additional support is provided by the German Center for Research and Innovation, the Polish Cultural Institute New York, The Earth Institute, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and Sofia University, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, and the University of Bordeaux Montaigne. In-Kind support is provided by Colson Patisserie, Champagne Pommery, Albertine, Bogota Latin Bistro, Miti Miti, Emma\u2019s Torch, EVEN Hotel Brooklyn, Sud de France and Mas de Daumas Gassac. Visual identity created by La R\u00eaveuse.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Stawiszynski was previously head of the national department of Newsweek, Polish edition, host of the live show Alternative Studio, dedicated to modern art and philosophy, and co-host of the Reading Room for the Polish television channel TVP Kultura. He also hosted The Philosopher's Sunday on Polish Radio RDC. He is the host of Philosopher's Hour for the talk-radio station TOK FM, and of the Internet podcast Our Internal Conflicts, and a staff writer for Przekroj \u2013 one of the oldest Polish cultural magazines.2020 Night of Philosophy & Ideas is co-presented by Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. The program is made possible with major support from the Open Society Foundations. Generous support is provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Institut fran\u00e7ais, Sixpoint Brewery, the Wythe Hotel, Air France, FACE Foundation, and event partner National Sawdust. 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