Don’t book up your Tuesday evenings just yet. Reading group will be back in no time—for a discussion of gift, debt, death, and community. The following is a tentative schedule for our summer sessions:
GIFT // DEBT // DEATH
- 06/04 – Marcel Mauss, “The Exchange of Gifts and the Obligation to Reciprocate (Polynesia)” in The Gift
- 06/11 – David Graeber, “A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations” in Debt: The First 5000 Years
- 06/18 – Friedrich Nietzsche, “Second Essay: ‘Guilt,’ ‘Bad Conscience,’ and the Like” in Genealogy of Morals and “On the Gift-Giving Virtue” in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- 06/25 – Georges Bataille, “The Gift of Rivalry: Potlatch” in The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy
- 07/02 – Jean Baudrillard, “Political Economy and Death” [first half, pp 125-157] in Symbolic Exchange and Death
- 07/09 – Alphonso Lingis, TBD
- 07/16 – Jacques Derrida, “The Time of the King” in Given Time: 1. Counterfeit Money
- 07/23 – Jean-Luc Marion, “The Reason of the Gift” in The Essential Writings
- 07/30 – Jacques Derrida + Jean-Luc Marion, “On The Gift” in God, the Gift, and Postmodernism
- 08/06 – Jean-Luc Nancy, “The Inoperative Community” in The Inoperative Community
- 08/13 – Maurice Blanchot, “The Negative Community” in The Unavowable Community
- 08/20 – Roberto Esposito, “Introduction: Nothing in Common” in Communitas
Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network 
Hooray! I can actually make it for part of the summer. Finally. What time is reading group?
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 6:00 PM Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network wrote:
> jleavittpearl posted: “Don’t book up your Tuesday evenings just yet. > Reading group will be back in no time—for a discussion of gift, debt, > death, and community. The following is a tentative schedule for our summer > sessions: GIFT // DEBT // DEATH 06/04 – Marcel Mauss, “The Ex” >
Actually, we are hoping to move it just a bit earlier, to 7:00pm.
-JP