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"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
-- from "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus," Wittgenstein
Discourse cheers us to companionable
reflection. Such reflection neither
parades polemical opinions nor does it
tolerate complaisant agreement. The sail
of thinking keeps trimmed hard to the
wind of the matter.
-- from "On the Experience of Thinking," Heidegger
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Nietzsche: Assorted Opinions and Maxims (Week 1)
Oak Park Public Library - Main Library, 834 Lake St, Oak Park, IL, USThree texts by Nietzsche, published separately between 1878 and 1880, comprise the work we will read as 'Human, All Too Human':
- "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits",
- "Assorted Opinions and Maxims”, and
- "The Wanderer and his Shadow”.
These works mark the beginning of Nietzsche's aphoristic style, and a shift in his focus to (what he calls) psychology and human fallibility, frailty—a shift in focus towards what moves us, what we value or esteem in life.
Whether you're new to discussing philosophical texts or can synthesize disparate aphorisms across Nietzsche's corpus, we'd be happy to have you!
Please read ahead and be prepared to discuss Nietzsche's text in detail.
**Reading schedule:
Human All Too Human:- "Preface" & "Of the First and Last Things", §§1–34
- "On the History of Moral Sensations", §§35–107
- "The Religious Life", "From the Souls of Artists and Writers", §§108–223
- "Signs of Higher and Lower Culture", §§224–292
- "In Relations with Others", "Woman and Child", §§293–437
- "A Glance at the State", "By Oneself Alone", "Among Friends", §§438–epilogue.
Assorted Opinions and Maxims:
- "Preface", §§1–7, and §§1–181
- §§182–408
The Wanderer and his Shadow:
- Untitled prologue and §§1–148
- §§148–350, and untitled epilogue.
For a translation, we're recommending Handwerk's: first vol. and second.
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Jewish Thinkers of Otherness ⟩ Derrida — Part II
·ÇevrimiçiÇevrimiçiDerrida: The Philosopher as International Media Phenomenon
Professor Steven Taubeneck will present.
After 1967, when he published three books in one year, Derrida experimented in the 1970s with more creative forms of writing. Glas, which combines a reading of Hegel with pages from Genet’s autobiography, was published in 1974. In 1980, he published The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, the disruptions with which he implicitly questioned the understanding of philosophy as based on concepts and arguments.
These two texts, among others, follow from his essay on “White Mythology,” in which he showed how philosophy and metaphor are deeply intertwined.
By 1980, he had become world famous, but also widely considered scandalous, “postmodern,” and thus problematic. The controversy led to the rejection of his honorary doctorate from Cambridge University in 1992.
For our meeting on Derrida, “Part 2,” I would like to consider two texts from the later part of his career. Both texts are available on the THORR site. Please have a look at them before our meeting.
The first, “Of an apocalyptic tone recently raised in philosophy,” was a paper given in 1980 in response to Kant’s “Of an overlordly tone recently adopted in philosophy” (“Von einem neuerdings erhobenen vornehmen Ton in der Philosophie,” 1796). Kant had criticized the tone of recent writings in philosophy, and Derrida used the occasion to develop a similar critique of Heidegger and Levinas, on their relation to the apocalypse of St. John.
The second text, Monolingualism of the Other, or the Prosthesis of the Origin, is from 1996. In this, one of his more extended accounts of his own life, he describes what it was like to grow up speaking the language of the colonizer (French) within the context of the colonized (Algeria).
When he died in 2004, the President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac, announced his passing.
METHOD
- Head on over to the THORR page for this event to download the articles and a handy timeline.
- While you’re there, watch the amazing documentary playing at SADHO Theater.
- As always, summaries, notes, event chatlogs, episode transcripts, timelines, tables, observations, and downloadable PDFs for all the episodes we cover can be found here: THORR (The High Ontology Reading Room)
ABOUT PROFESSOR TAUBENECK
Professor Taubeneck is professor of German and Philosophy at UBC, first translator of Hegel’s Encyclopedia into English, and SADHO CΦO. Most impressively, he has also been wrestling with the core texts of 20-cent. phenomenology and existentialism for over 30 years, and has worked and collaborated with Gadamer, Derrida, and Rorty.
View all of our coming episodes here.
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Kierkegaard: Either/Or Part I (Live Reading)
·ÇevrimiçiÇevrimiçiOnline meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/Kierkegaard-Friday-CPM
This is the first meeting of Either/Or, and we'll be starting at page 40 (Danish 24). At the last meeting, we started on page 37 (Danish 21).
Kierkegaard’s masterpiece in experimental literature and philosophy, Either/Or, explores themes that permeate his work as a whole. In Part I, Kierkegaard presents his most extensive treatment of the aesthetic worldview, which understands life as governed by fate and seeks to assert itself by taking the reins of existence through imagination.
Text
Part I: pdf, epub
Part II: pdf, epubHere are the plays we read together before beginning Either/Or:
- Sophocles - Antigone
- Scribe - The First Love
- Goethe - Faust
- Video of a production of Faust I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaogjXLdPow
Additional works you could look at while we read Either/Or:
- Goethe - Clavigo
- Mozart/Ponte - Don Giovanni
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQBmLHSXQdg
- Mozart/Schikaneder - The Magic Flute
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om_qtZ-Hm7k
- Mozart/Ponte - The Marriage of Figaro
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ik-PzAXsQ
On the Friday Meetings:
The Friday meetings began on January 1, 2016, with an initial goal of reading through the first half of Søren Kierkegaard's works. Due to continued interest, we have decided to return to previous works for review, study more background texts, and continue beyond the first half of Kierkegaard's writing.
Works read so far in the series:- The Concept of Irony, With Continual Reference to Socrates (Kierkegaard)
- Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures (Kierkegaard)
- Either/Or (Victor Eremita, et al.)
- Two Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
- Fear and Trembling (Johannes de Silentio)
- Repetition (Constantin Constantius)
- Three Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
- Four Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
- Two Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
- Three Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
- Philosophical Fragments (Johannes Climacus)
- Johannes Climacus or De Omnibus Dubitandum Est (Johannes Climacus)
- Concept of Anxiety (Vigilius Haufniensis)
- Prefaces (Nicolaus Notabene)
- Writing Sampler (A.B.C.D.E.F. Godthaab)
- Four Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
- Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (Kierkegaard)
- Stages on Life's Way (Hilarious Bookbinder)
- Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments (Johannes Climacus)
- The Sickness Unto Death (Anti-Climacus)
- Works of Love
Works read for background:
- The First Love (Scribe)
- The Berlin Lectures (Schelling)
- Clavigo (Goethe)
- Faust Part I (Goethe)
- Antigone (Sophocles)
- Axioms (Lessing)
- The Little Mermaid (Anderson)
Works read inspired (at least in part) by Kierkegaard
- The Escape from God (Tillich)
- You Are Accepted (Tillich)
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Plato - Laws, Book XI (Live Reading)
·ÇevrimiçiÇevrimiçiWe'll be continuing from Book XI, 933e (the previous meeting started at Book XI, 928d)
The dramatic action is as follows: Three elders—an Athenian, a Spartan, and a Cretan—walk the path of Minos and discuss laws and law-giving.
Meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/CPM-Saturday-Afternoon-Meetings
No particular edition is required but we can discuss what we want to use during the meeting. Because of this, sharing some editions that are generally available digitally in the comments may be helpful. I'll also try to keep the Greek text handy (probably through a Loeb edition, but anyone can look at Perseus as well).
If you want to familiarize yourself with the text in advance here are some different editions:
On Perseus, Shorely (HTML): https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0166
Plato's Complete Works:
PDF: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=B670E9AEA7C9F52B2D40D63FF84F5600
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