
Plot
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.
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Cast

Cornel West
Self

Judith Butler
Self

Slavoj Žižek
Self

Peter Singer
Self

Michael Hardt
Self

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Self

Martha C. Nussbaum
Self

Avital Ronell
Self

Sunaura Taylor
Self

Astra Taylor
Self

Barack Obama
Self (floating on a boat in central park)

Michelle Obama
Self (floating on a boat in central park)