Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network

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READING GROUP:

PCPN is excited about our winter/spring session looking at Continental Readings of Early Modern Philosophy. This Winter and Spring, on alternating weeks we will examine key early modern philosophers, and more recent continental theorists who have used, interpreted, or rethought these earlier traditions.

This week:

• 02/06 – Hobbes, selection from Leviathan, “Of Man” 9–42, Chs. 1-7

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Time: 8:00pm-10:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

• 02/17/17, 4:00 pm – The Phenomenology of Max Scheler: In Relation to Critical Theory and Metaethics; Simon Silverman Center, Gumberg Library, Duquesne University

OTHER NEWS:

Ever wondered how much we have really covered in reading group? Check out the new link that includes a (nearly) comprehensive list of every text that has been covered by the reading group since its inception a few years ago. LINK HERE

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Dr. Fred Evans’ keynote from (un)commons: theory and public space is now available on youtube and our video page. Check it out!

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Continental Readings of Early Modern Philosophy:

• 02/06 – Hobbes, selection from Leviathan, “Of Man” 9–42, Chs. 1-7
• 02/13 – Strauss, selections from The Political Philosophy of Hobbes,1-30
• 02/20 – LaRochefoucauld, Maxims
• 02/27 – Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, “On the History of Moral Sensations”
• 03/06 – Descartes, Meditations I-II
• 03/13 – Foucault, Madness and Civilization, excerpt; Derrida, “Cogito and the History of Madness”; Foucault’s response to Derrida, appendix to second edition of Madness and Civilization
• 03/20 – Leibniz, Monadology, selections from Anne Conway, The Principles, Chs. 1-3
• 03/27 – Tarde, “Monadology and Sociology”
• 04/03 – Deleuze, The Fold, Chs. 1-2
• 04/10 – Spinoza, Ethics I
• 04/17 – Deleuze, On Spinoza, 3-29
• 04/24 – Hume, TBD
• 05/01 – Continental Reader of Hume, TBD

Greetings philosophers!

We had a great turnout and discussion for our first reading group of the winter. I am excited to see where this season takes us.

While many aspects of this group are free or nearly-free, thanks in part to your help, it is nevertheless the case that our various web-hosting fees are not free, and cost the group about $150 a year.

We are committed to keeping the group free and open. You can help keep this financially feasible by giving a donation. Whatever you can spare would be a great help.

The easiest way to help us is to head on over to our meetup page and click “chip in”

Thanks,
-Justin and the PCPN team

READING GROUP:

PCPN is excited to kick off a new season tomorrow (01/23) with a winter/spring session looking at Continental Readings of Early Modern Philosophy. This Winter and Spring, on alternating weeks we will examine key early modern philosophers, and more recent continental theorists who have used, interpreted, or rethought these earlier traditions.

This week:

• 01/23 – Machiavelli, selection from The Prince, Chs. 1-10

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Time: 8:00pm-10:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

• None this week

OTHER NEWS:

Ever wondered how much we have really covered in reading group? Check out the new link that includes a (nearly) comprehensive list of every text that has been covered by the reading group since its inception a few years ago. LINK HERE

***

Dr. Fred Evans’ keynote from (un)commons: theory and public space is now available on youtube and our video page. Check it out!

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Continental Readings of Early Modern Philosophy:

• 01/23 – Machiavelli, selection from The Prince, Chs. 1-10
• 01/30 – Althusser, Machiavelli and Us, Chapter 1
• 02/06 – Hobbes, selection from Leviathan, “Of Man” 9–42, Chs. 1-7
• 02/13 – Strauss, selections from The Political Philosophy of Hobbes,1-30
• 02/20 – LaRochefoucauld, Maxims
• 02/27 – Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, “On the History of Moral Sensations”
• 03/06 – Descartes, Meditations I-II
• 03/13 – Foucault, Madness and Civilization, excerpt; Derrida, “Cogito and the History of Madness”; Foucault’s response to Derrida, appendix to second edition of Madness and Civilization
• 03/20 – Leibniz, Monadology, selections from Anne Conway, The Principles, Chs. 1-3
• 03/27 – Tarde, “Monadology and Sociology”
• 04/03 – Deleuze, The Fold, Chs. 1-2
• 04/10 – Spinoza, Ethics I
• 04/17 – Deleuze, On Spinoza, 3-29
• 04/24 – Hume, TBD
• 05/01 – Continental Reader of Hume, TBD

READING GROUP:

PCPN is excited to kick back into gear this month (01/23) with a wither/spring session looking at Continental Readings of Early Modern Philosophy.

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Time: 8:00pm-10:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

Schedule:

• 01/23 – Machiavelli, selection from The Prince, Chs. 1-10
• 01/30 – Althusser, Machiavelli and Us, Chapter 1
• 02/06 – Hobbes, selection from Leviathan, “Of Man” 9–42, Chs. 1-7
• 02/13 – Strauss, selections from The Political Philosophy of Hobbes,1-30
• 02/20 – LaRochefoucauld, Maxims
• 02/27 – Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, “On the History of Moral Sensations”
• 03/06 – Descartes, Meditations I-II
• 03/13 – Foucault, Madness and Civilization, excerpt; Derrida, “Cogito and the History of Madness”; Foucault’s response to Derrida, appendix to second edition of Madness and Civilization
• 03/20 – Leibniz, Monadology, selections from Anne Conway, The Principles, Chs. 1-3
• 03/27 – Tarde, “Monadology and Sociology”
• 04/03 – Deleuze, The Fold, Chs. 1-2
• 04/10 – Spinoza, Ethics I
• 04/17 – Deleuze, On Spinoza, 3-29
• 04/24 – Hume, TBD
• 05/01 – Continental Reader of Hume, TBD

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

• None this week

OTHER NEWS:

Ever wondered how much we have really covered in reading group? Check out the new link that includes a (nearly) comprehensive list of every text that has been covered by the reading group since its inception a few years ago. LINK HERE

***

Dr. Fred Evans’ keynote from (un)commons: theory and public space is now available on youtube and our video page. Check it out!

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Continental Readings of Early Modern Philosophy:

• 01/23 – Machiavelli, selection from The Prince, Chs. 1-10
• 01/30 – Althusser, Machiavelli and Us, Chapter 1
• 02/06 – Hobbes, selection from Leviathan, “Of Man” 9–42, Chs. 1-7
• 02/13 – Strauss, selections from The Political Philosophy of Hobbes,1-30
• 02/20 – LaRochefoucauld, Maxims
• 02/27 – Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, “On the History of Moral Sensations”
• 03/06 – Descartes, Meditations I-II
• 03/13 – Foucault, Madness and Civilization, excerpt; Derrida, “Cogito and the History of Madness”; Foucault’s response to Derrida, appendix to second edition of Madness and Civilization
• 03/20 – Leibniz, Monadology, selections from Anne Conway, The Principles, Chs. 1-3
• 03/27 – Tarde, “Monadology and Sociology”
• 04/03 – Deleuze, The Fold, Chs. 1-2
• 04/10 – Spinoza, Ethics I
• 04/17 – Deleuze, On Spinoza, 3-29
• 04/24 – Hume, TBD
• 05/01 – Continental Reader of Hume, TBD

READING GROUP:

PCPN is excited to continue our summer/fall session — Critical Theory: Politics and the Frankfurt School — tomorrow (11/21) with a discussion of Edward Said and Orientalism.

Reading:

• 11/21: Said, “Introduction” Orientalism
  Said, “Traveling Theory”

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Time: 8:00pm-10:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave)

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

(since we tend to close-read, please bring a copy of the text to the group)

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

• None this week.

OTHER NEWS:

Ever wondered how much we have really covered in reading group? Check out the new link that includes a (nearly) comprehensive list of every text that has been covered by the reading group since its inception a few years ago. LINK HERE

***

Dr. Fred Evans’ keynote from (un)commons: theory and public space is now available on youtube and our video page. Check it out!

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Critical Theory: Politics and the Frankfurt School

• 11/21: Said, “Introduction” Orientalism
  Said, “Traveling Theory”

READING GROUP:

PCPN is excited to continue our summer/fall session — Critical Theory: Politics and the Frankfurt School — tomorrow (11/14) with a discussion of the Frankfurt School and Feminism.

Reading:

• 11/14: Marcuse, “Marxism and Feminism”
  Brown, “Feminist Theory and the Frankfurt School”

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Time: 8:00pm-10:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave)

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

(since we tend to close-read, please bring a copy of the text to the group)

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

• November 15, 2016 at 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm. Gender, Race, and Politics: A Conversation with Khadija T. Diggs, Esq.” Room 204 in Edward J. Hanley Hall (School of Law), Duquesne University
• November 17, 2016 at 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Seminar on “Things Merely Are” – Dr. Simon Critchley (The New School for Social Research) Simon Silverman Center, Gumberg Library 1st Floor, Duquesne University
• November 18, 2016 at 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. “Stay! Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine” – Simon Critchley (The New School for Social Research) Simon Silverman Center, Gumberg Library 1st Floor, Duquesne University
• November 18, 2016 at 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm. “Working-Class Ballet—A Poetics of Football” – Dr. Simon Critchley (New School for Social Research) Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, 1st Floor Gumberg Library, Duquesne University

OTHER NEWS:

Ever wondered how much we have really covered in reading group? Check out the new link that includes a (nearly) comprehensive list of every text that has been covered by the reading group since its inception a few years ago. LINK HERE

***

Dr. Fred Evans’ keynote from (un)commons: theory and public space is now available on youtube and our video page. Check it out!

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Critical Theory: Politics and the Frankfurt School

• 11/14: Marcuse, “Marxism and Feminism”
  Brown, “Feminist Theory and the Frankfurt School”
• 11/21: Said, “Introduction” Orientalism
  Said, “Traveling Theory”

READING GROUP:

PCPN is excited to continue our summer/fall session — Critical Theory: Politics and the Frankfurt School — tomorrow (11/07) with a discussion of Habermas.

Reading:

• 11/07: Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Excerpts)

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Time: 8:00pm-10:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave)

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

(since we tend to close-read, please bring a copy of the text to the group)

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

• None.

OTHER NEWS:

Ever wondered how much we have really covered in reading group? Check out the new link that includes a (nearly) comprehensive list of every text that has been covered by the reading group since its inception a few years ago. LINK HERE

***

Dr. Fred Evans’ keynote from (un)commons: theory and public space is now available on youtube and our video page. Check it out!

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Critical Theory: Politics and the Frankfurt School

• 11/07: Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Excerpts)
• 11/14: Marcuse, “Marxism and Feminism”
  Brown, “Feminist Theory and the Frankfurt School”
• 11/21: Said, “Introduction” Orientalism
  Said, “Traveling Theory”

A friend of the network, The Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, has extended registration for the free lecture series by Simon Critchley. Sign up now!!

READING GROUP:

PCPN is excited to continue our summer/fall session — Critical Theory: Politics and the Frankfurt School — tomorrow (10/31) with a discussion of Kirchheimer.

Reading:

• 10/31: Kirchheimer, “Changes in the Structure of Political Compromise”

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Time: 8:00pm-10:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave)

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

(since we tend to close-read, please bring a copy of the text to the group)

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

• November 2, 2016: Dr. Ann Cahill (Elon University), Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, 1st Floor Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
  Philosophy Speaker Series
• November 4, 2016 at 2:30 pm – 4:30 pmDr. Michal Piekarski (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw – UKSW), Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, 1st Floor Gumberg Library, Duquesne University

OTHER NEWS:

Ever wondered how much we have really covered in reading group? Check out the new link that includes a (nearly) comprehensive list of every text that has been covered by the reading group since its inception a few years ago. LINK HERE

***

Dr. Fred Evans’ keynote from (un)commons: theory and public space is now available on youtube and our video page. Check it out!

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Critical Theory: Politics and the Frankfurt School

• 10/31: Kirchheimer, “Changes in the Structure of Political Compromise”
• 11/07: Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Excerpts)
• 11/14: Marcuse, “Marxism and Feminism”
  Brown, “Feminist Theory and the Frankfurt School”
• 11/21: Said, “Introduction” Orientalism
  Said, “Traveling Theory”