#  Interview with Sean Kelly on "Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning" 

 





November 29, 2021

 

 

 Professor Sean Kelly has been featured in a recent interview with Tech Podcaster [Lex Fridman](https://lexfridman.com/podcast/), which is available for viewing [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC1HszE5Hcw&t=748s). In the episode, entitled “Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning,” Professor Kelly discusses existentialism as it pertains to manifold topics, such as *The Big Lebowski*, Dostoyevsky, whether AI can produce art, and the meaning of life.

   
Sean Kelly is the current Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy at Harvard, where he is also a Harvard College Professor. With his wife, [Cheryl Kelly Chen](/people/cheryl-chen) (Philosophy DUS), he is Faculty Dean of Dunster House. He is the co-author, with Hubert Dreyfus, of the New York Times bestselling book *[All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781416596165)* (2011), and he is currently working on a book for Harvard University Press entitled *The Proper Dignity of Human Being*.



 

 

 



 

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