Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman: What Are Children For?
@ Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, June 10th, from 6PM - 7PM
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman will discuss What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice. They will be joined in conversation by Agnes Callard. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
At the Co-op
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About the Book: Becoming a parent, once the expected outcome of adulthood, is increasingly viewed as a potential threat to the most basic goals and aspirations of modern life. We seek self-fulfillment, we want to liberate women to find meaning and self-worth outside the home, and we wish to protect the planet from the ravages of climate change. Weighing the pros and cons of having children, Millennials and Zoomers are finding it increasingly difficult to judge in its favor.
With lucid argument and passionate prose, Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman offer the guidance necessary to move beyond uncertainty. The decision whether or not to have children, they argue, is not just a women’s issue but a basic human one. And at a time when climate change worries threaten the very legitimacy of human reproduction, Berg and Wiseman conclude that neither our personal nor collective failures ought to prevent us from embracing the fundamental goodness of human life—not only in the present but, in choosing to have children, in the future.
About the Author: Anastasia Berg is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is an editor of The Point, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Chronicle Review.
Rachel Wiseman is the managing editor of The Point. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Point, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
About the Interlocutor: Agnes Callard is an associate professor in philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her essays and public philosophy have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Point, and elsewhere.
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