Kelly Carlin + Taylor Carman

The performer Kelly Carlin reveals the profound effect her father, comedian George Carlin, had on her life to mark the publication of her new book, A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George.

About the Speakers

Kelly Carlin was born in Ohio in 1963. She received her Master’s degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently presenting her critically acclaimed solo show A Carlin Home Companion around the country, blogging for the Huffington Post, and hosting two radio shows: The Kelly Carlin Show on SiriusXM and Waking from the American Dream on the SModcast Network. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Bob McCall, and their Jack Russell terrier, Stella.

Taylor Carman is a professor of philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophy, especially the traditions of phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics. He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (2004) and the author of Heidegger’s Analytic (2003) and Merleau-Ponty (2008). He has published articles on topics such as perception, intentionality, and bodily awareness. He is also interested in philosophical questions concerning the nature of truth and the relationship between visual experience and photography.

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