Past Meetings

2024

• Capitalism and the Death Drive by Byung-Chul Han [recorded discussions]
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf [recorded discussions]
• Why Philosophize? Lectures by Jean-François Lyotard [recorded discussions]
• Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot [recorded discussions]
• Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus [recorded discussions]
• Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth by A. O. Scott [recorded discussions]
• Deconstruction & Pragmatism by Chantal Mouffe, Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, and Richard Rorty [recorded discussions]

2023

• Understanding Poststructuralism by James Williams [recorded discussions]
• The Fall by Albert Camus
• Identity by Milan Kundera
• Slowness by Milan Kundera
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Gift of Death by Jacques Derrida
• Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
• Against Interpretation & Other Essays (selections) by Susan Sontag

2022

• Inventing the Enemy & Other Occasional Writings by Umberto Eco
• Basic Writings of Immanuel Kant – collected & edited by Allen Wood

2021

• On Populist Reason (selections) by Ernesto Laclau
• The Jung Reader (selections), collected & edited by David Tacey
• Conversations on Science, Culture, & Time – Michel Serres & Bruno Latour

2020

• Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
• A Thousand Plateaus (selections) by Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze
• Truth & Method (selections) by Hans-Georg Gadamer
• The Penguin Freud Reader (selections) collected & edited by Adam Phillips

Current Schedule and Texts