Leon Kass to Deliver Humanities Lecture

By Alexander Comisar
Roll Call Staff
May 21, 2009, 12 a.m.

For Leon Kass, life truly is one big picture. He calls himself a “humanist” — perhaps because there is no other term broad enough to describe his diverse body of work, but most likely because the driving force behind his professional journey, as he puts it, is a deeply rooted desire to understand what it means to exist as a human being.



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