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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: TURNING AWAY by BENJAMIN A. SALTZMAN
DESCRIPTION:A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. This is a work of breathtaking scholarship. We are delighted to welcome its author\, Benjamin A Saltzman\, to Housmans for its UK launch. He will be in conversation with Revd Dr Ayla Lepine. Why do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame? Why do we lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as the averted gaze. Fewer still are as ambivalent and inscrutable. In this incisive study\, Benjamin A. Saltzman reveals how the kaleidoscopic appearance of these gestures in art\, poetry\, and philosophy has turned them into an essential language for our uncomfortable engagements with the world\, challenging us to reflect on the ways we fundamentally relate to others. \nInto the horizon of contemporary discourse\, Turning Away sets out from five influential scenes in which figures avert their gaze: Timanthes’s Sacrifice of Iphigenia\, Plato’s Republic\, Augustine’s Confessions\, Christ’s Crucifixion\, and the Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve. The gestures of aversion in these scenes refract across visual media\, through philosophy and politics\, into modernity and the present day\, having been reimagined along the way by thinkers like Hannah Arendt\, artists like Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí\, poets like Langston Hughes\, and many others. Saltzman offers a timely critique of the privilege of turning away and of the too-easy condemnation of our tendencies to do so. \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \nShare this:  \n				Share on X (Opens in new window)  \n				X 				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)  \n				Facebook 				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)  \n				Insta  \n			Like this:Like Loading…
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-launch-turning-away-by-benjamin-a-saltzman/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
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SUMMARY:Ingrown / King Street / Flesh Prison / Rabbithole | Real Life at The Piehouse
DESCRIPTION:Real Life Presents  \nIngrown\, Feral Idaho powerviolence + support from King Street\, London Style Hardcore Flesh Prison\, BN1 Powerviolence Stomp Rabbithole\, Filthy Hardcore Death Youth  \n£12\, doors 7pm
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/ingrown-king-street-flesh-prison-rabbithole-real-life-at-the-piehouse/
LOCATION:Piehouse Co-op\, Arches 213-214\, Edward St\, Deptford\, SE8 5HD
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