The Shawshank Redemption (Article, 2014 Hooke)
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The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the article, “The Shawshank Redemption” by Alexander Hooke, which is about the film of the same name, the story's relevance to existentialism as a philosophy, and the themes in classic existentialist works by Sartre and others.
Essential reading:- The Shawshank Redemption (Article, 2014, Hooke)
Recommended viewing:- The Shawshank Redemption (Movie, 1994, Director: Darabont)
Additional reading/viewing as time allows:- Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, 1982, Stephen King
Also:- No Exit, 1947, Sartre
And if you really, really get time:- Being and Nothingness, 1944, Sartre
Sources
Article: https://philosophynow.org/issues/102/The_Shawshank_Redemption
Movie: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0791RWT31/ref=dvm_uk_sl_tit%7Cc_328008753300_m_DUtvwEPI-dc_s_
Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stephen-King-Goes-Movies-Redemption-ebook/dp/B0043VD64E/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=rita+hayworth&qid=1567114692&s=digital-text&sr=1-2
No Exit (Sartre): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v96qw83tw4
Being and Nothingness (Sartre): http://dhspriory.org/kenny/PhilTexts/Sartre/BeingAndNothingness.pdf
October Meetup
The subject of the October meetup will be decided in the next 2-3 days, favourites, in order, being:-
- Woman on the Edge of Time, 1976, Marge Piercy https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529100577/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_mdBwDb7SGVM6C
- The Question Concerning Technology, 1954, Martin Heidegger
- A visit to the "Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery" Exhibition 30 May 2019 to 26 January 2020 at the Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/XFHHShUAAAU_pE70
- The Ethics of Ambiguity, 1947, Simone de Beauvoir
Please feel free to add extra ideas in the comments over the next few days