Greetings readers! This week we will be meeting, once again, at Tender at 8:00pm. We are now full steam ahead into continental philosophy’s reappropriation of Hegel, and will tonight be looking at Derrida’s preface to Catherine Malabou’s The Future of Hegel.
As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.
download pdfs: HERE
Greetings readers! This week we will be meeting, once again, at Tender at 8:00pm. Having spent the last month getting an introduction to Hegel and his French interpretation, we are now ready to jump into the continental appropriation of his work over the last few decades. First up, Judith Butler!
As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.
download pdfs: HERE
Just as a reminder, the PCPN reading group is moving to a new location. Since Industry wasa bit loud, we have switched over to Tender (directly across the street), which was totally swanky and quite a bit quieter. So, we shall meet there tonight at 8:00pm, don’t miss it!
Tonight, as per our schedule, we will be tackling Kojève’s “In Place of and Introduction” which offers a hugely influential interpretation of Hegel’s Phenomenology, particularly the Master/Slave dialectic.
As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.
download pdfs: HERE
I will never be as cool as Kojève.
Sorry for the late notice, yall; but, reading group is moving to a new location. Last week, Industry was booked up, so we checked out Tender (directly across the street), which was totally swanky and quite a bit quieter. So, we shall meet there tonight at 8:00pm, don’t miss it!
Tonight, as per our schedule, we will be tackling Hegel’s “Master/Slave Dialectic,” an incredibly famous, and reasonably short passage from the Phenomenology of Spirit, which was to become the central text in his 20th century French reception (as we will see next week).
pdfs: HERE
Reading group kicked off with a bang last week. Be sure to stop in tonight for what is sure to be some exciting discussion of the second half of the preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. The big debate last week — and which is likely to continue into tonight — is whether it is possible to read Hegel otherwise than as the totalitarian systematizer that he is often said to be.
When: 8:00pm
Where: Industry Public House, Lawrenceville
pdfs: HERE
Philosophers, amateur philosophers, non-philosophers, and friends; the reading group is back tomorrow night!!!
Head on over to the Industry Public House in Lawrenceville at 8:00pm for discussion of the first half of the “Preface” to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.
Following a delay — caused by some shananigans finding a new reading group location — we are thrilled to announce that the Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group is back! For the Spring we will be looking at texts related to the reemergence of Hegel in continental philosophy, with some really interesting texts (including: Hegel, Kojeve, Butler, Derrida, Malabou, Zizek, and Caputo). As per usual, no books are required, all texts will be available via pdf HERE (Zizek is not yet available, but will be well before the April 20th).
When/Where: We will be meeting on Monday Nights at 8:00pm at the Industry Public House in Lawrenceville.
Reading Schedule:
*As a reminder, although we are going “thematic,” it is worth remembering that it is certianly not necessary or expected that you attend every week (though that would be great!). Basically, if you can’t make a week, don’t sweat it! Just stop in whenever you can. Our discussion will not presuppose that you have read all of the previous readings, only that you are interested in thinking deeply and discussing.
We have a ton of exciting information, so here it goes:
Waiting for your philosophy fix in the new year? Don’t worry, there is some exciting news brewing at the PCPN, expect updates in the next week or two. Look forward to details about a new PCPN steering committee, updates about the exciting new shape of the reading group for this year (spoiler: more thematic consistency), a CFP for next year’s conference, and much much more.
The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group is back from a brief hiatus for two last meetings before the end of the semester. Be sure to stop by this sunday for Mcgowan’s “On the Necessity of Contradiction: Hegel with the Speculative Realists” at the East End Book Exchange (4:00pm).
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