An Evening with Jedediah Purdy

Jedediah Purdy teaches at Duke. He has written five books, most recently After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene, as well as many scholarly articles and essays. His writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, the New Republic, n+1, and Dissent, among others. He was raised on a small farm in West Virginia. In 2013 he was arrested in a peaceful act of civil disobedience at the North Carolina state legislature.