Past Meetings

2025

  • Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud [recordings]
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen [recordings]

2024

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

2023

  • Understanding Poststructuralism by James Williams [recordings]
  • 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