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Slavery, Emancipation, and Equality

Wesson Lecture Discussion

  • Elizabeth Anderson
  • Joshua Cohen
  • David Hollinger
Democracy Human Rights McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University Podcast
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August 5, 2013

Elizabeth Anderson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. Her latest book is Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back.

Joshua Cohen is coeditor of Boston Review, Distinguished Senior Fellow in law, philosophy, and political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and member of the faculty at Apple University. His books include The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Papers.

David Hollinger is Preston Hotchkis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.

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