Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network

Bust out a pipe and your best French accent, as we spend the summer and fall discussing authenticity, freedom, and angst with our next unit on Existential Ethics.

Next Discussion: 05/14 – Hegel, G.W.F. Phenomenology of Spirit,  “Spirit that is Certain of Itself. Morality.”

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Please bring a copy (digital or paper) copy of the reading with you to the meeting.

Location: Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), most Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm.

SCHEDULE:

• 05/14 – Hegel, G.W.F. Phenomenology of Spirit,  “Spirit that is Certain of Itself. Morality.”
• 05/21 – NO MEETING
• 05/28 – Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling, “Problema 1” and “Problema 2.”
• 06/04 – Stirner, Max. The Ego and Its Own, “The Owner” and “My Power.”
• 06/11 – Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Notes from the Underground, “Part 1: Underground”
• 06/18 – Nietzsche, Friedrich. On The Genealogy of Morals, “‘Good and Evil,’ ‘Good and Bad’.”
• 06/25 – Cooper, Anna Julia. “The Ethics of the Negro Question.” 
• 07/02 – NO MEETING
• 07/09 – Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folks, “Of the Sons of Master and Man.”
• 07/16 – Kafka, Franz. “The Judgment” and Butler, Judith. “Giving an Account of Oneself, “The Limits of Judgment.”
• 07/23 – Scheler, Max. Ressentiment, “Ressentiment and Moral Value Judgement” and “Christian Morality and Ressentiment.”
• 07/30 – Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time, “Dasein’s Attestation of an Authentic Potentiality-for-Being, and Resoluteness.”
• 08/06 – Zapffe, Peter Wessel . “The Last Messiah”
• 08/13 – Weil, Simone. “The Iliad, or the Poem of Force.”
• 08/20 – Fromm, Erich. Escape from Freedom, TBD.
• 08/27 – Sartre, Jean-Paul. “Existentialism is a Humanism.”
• 09/03 – Heidegger, Martin. “Letter on Humanism.”
• 09/10 – Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception, “Freedom.”
• 09/17 – de Beauvoir, Simone. The Ethics of Ambiguity, “Ambiguity and Freedom.”
• 09/24 – Camus, Albert, The Rebel, “The Rebel,” “Absolute Negation,” and “Absolute Affirmation.”
• 10/01 – Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man, “Prologue” and “Battle Royal”
• 10/08 – Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Mask, “The Negro and Psychopathology.”
• 10/15 – Heschel, Abraham Joshua. Who is Man?, TBD. 
• 10/22 – Levinas, Emmanuel. “Ethics as First Philosophy”
• 10/29 – Murdoch, Iris. The Sovereignty of the Good, “On God and the Good”
• 11/05 – Sartre, Jean-Paul. Critique of Dialectical Reason, “The Storming of the Bastille.”
• 11/12 – Daly, Mary. Beyond God the Father, “Transvaluation of Values: The End of Phallic Morality”
• 11/19 – Soloveitchik, Joseph. Halakhic Man, TBD. 
• 11/26 – NO MEETING
• 12/03 – Caputo, John. Against Ethics, TBD. 
• 12/10 – Gordon, Lewis. “Sartrean Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism.”
• 12/17 – Morrison, Roy D. “Self-Transformation in American Blacks” in Existence in Black

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Coming soon! Time to bust out a pipe and your best french accent, as we spend the summer and fall discussing authenticity, freedom, and angst with our next unit on Existential Ethics.

Location: Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), most Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm.

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE
(the first few readings are up and others will be added soon)

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:

• 05/14 – Hegel, G.W.F. Phenomenology of Spirit,  “Spirit that is Certain of Itself. Morality.”
• 05/21 – NO MEETING
• 05/28 – Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling, “Problema 1” and “Problema 2.”
• 06/04 – Stirner, Max. The Ego and Its Own, “The Owner” and “My Power.”
• 06/11 – Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Notes from the Underground, “Part 1: Underground”
• 06/18 – Nietzsche, Friedrich. On The Genealogy of Morals, “‘Good and Evil,’ ‘Good and Bad’.”
• 06/25 – Cooper, Anna Julia. “The Ethics of the Negro Question.” 
• 07/02 – NO MEETING
• 07/09 – Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folks, “Of the Sons of Master and Man.”
• 07/16 – Kafka, Franz. “The Judgment” and Butler, Judith. “Giving an Account of Oneself, “The Limits of Judgment.”
• 07/23 – Scheler, Max. Ressentiment, “Ressentiment and Moral Value Judgement” and “Christian Morality and Ressentiment.”
• 07/30 – Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time, “Dasein’s Attestation of an Authentic Potentiality-for-Being, and Resoluteness.”
• 08/06 – Zapffe, Peter Wessel . “The Last Messiah”
• 08/13 – Weil, Simone. “The Iliad, or the Poem of Force.”
• 08/20 – Fromm, Erich. Escape from Freedom, TBD.
• 08/27 – Sartre, Jean-Paul. “Existentialism is a Humanism.”
• 09/03 – Heidegger, Martin. “Letter on Humanism.”
• 09/10 – Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception, “Freedom.”
• 09/17 – de Beauvoir, Simone. The Ethics of Ambiguity, “Ambiguity and Freedom.”
• 09/24 – Camus, Albert, The Rebel, “The Rebel,” “Absolute Negation,” and “Absolute Affirmation.”
• 10/01 – Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man, “Prologue” and “Battle Royal”
• 10/08 – Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Mask, “The Negro and Psychopathology.”
• 10/15 – Heschel, Abraham Joshua. Who is Man?, TBD. 
• 10/22 – Levinas, Emmanuel. “Ethics as First Philosophy”
• 10/29 – Murdoch, Iris. The Sovereignty of the Good, “On God and the Good”
• 11/05 – Sartre, Jean-Paul. Critique of Dialectical Reason, “The Storming of the Bastille.”
• 11/12 – Daly, Mary. Beyond God the Father, “Transvaluation of Values: The End of Phallic Morality”
• 11/19 – Soloveitchik, Joseph. Halakhic Man, TBD. 
• 11/26 – NO MEETING
• 12/03 – Caputo, John. Against Ethics, TBD. 
• 12/10 – Gordon, Lewis. “Sartrean Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism.”
• 12/17 – Morrison, Roy D. “Self-Transformation in American Blacks” in Existence in Black

The PCPN reading group is back next week to kick off a discussion of Radical Democracy. You can find us at Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), most Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm.

Coming up:

• 04/16 – Pabst, Adrian. The Demons of Liberal Democracy, Introduction and Chapter 1
• Join us after the meeting ~8:30pm, at Nico’s Recovery Room, for some celebratory drinks after the end of the unit!

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Please bring either a digital or hard copy of the text with you to the discussion.

Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Yinz Coffee, 4525 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (look for the nerds in the back)

SCHEDULE:

• 09/12 – Holloway, Travis. “Seven Procedures for a Democratic Future”
• 09/19 – Spinoza, Benedict. Tractatus Politicus, Preface, Chapters 1-5, 11
• 09/26 – Winstanley, Gerrard. “The True Levellers Standard Advanced”
• 10/03 – Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man, Second Part, Chapters 3-4
• 10/10 – Marx, Karl. Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Introduction and Part 2
• 10/17 – Dewey, John. “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us”; The Public and Its Problems, Chapter 5
• 10/24 – Goldman, Emma. “The Individual, Society and the State”
• 10/31 – No Meeting, Happy Halloween!
• 11/07 – Ramnath, Maia. Decolonizing Anarchy, “Decolonization: The Highest Form of Anarchism”
• 11/14 – Students for a Democratic Society, “The Port Huron Statement”
• 11/21 – Newton, Huey P. “Revolutionary Intercommunalism”
• 11/28 – Gaddafi, Muammar. “The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People” in The Green Book
• 12/05 – Walzer, Michael. “Philosophy and Democracy”
• 12/12 – Laclau, E. and Mouffe, C., “Hegemony and Radical Democracy” in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical  Democratic Politics
• 12/19-01/02 – No Meetings, Happy Holidays!
• 01/09 – Fraser, Nancy. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy”
• 01/16 – Bookchin, Murray. “Communalism: The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism”
• 01/23 – Honneth, Axel and John M. M. Farrell. “Democracy as Reflexive Cooperation: John Dewey and the Theory of Democracy Today”
• 01/30 – Badiou, Alain. “Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy” and “The Democratic Emblem”
• 02/06 – Derrida, Jacques. “The Last of the Rogue States: The Democracy to Come, Opening in Two Turns” in Rogues: Two Essays on Reason
• 02/13 – Hardt, Michael & Antonio Negri. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, 3.3 “Democracy of the Multitude”
• 02/20 – Rancière, Jacques. “From Victorious Democracy to Criminal Democracy” in The Hatred of Democracy
• 02/27 – Brown, Wendy. “We are all Democrats Now”
• 03/05 – Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Truth of Democracy
• 03/12 – Dean, Jodi. Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies, Chapter 3
• 03/19 – Öcalan, Abdulah. Democratic Confederalism
• 03/26 – Robbins, Jeff. Radical Democracy and Political Theology, Chapter 1 and Conclusion
• 04/02 – Crimethinc, From Democracy to Freedom 
• 04/09 – Esposito, Roberto. “Postdemocracy and biopolitics”
• 04/16 – Pabst, Adrian. The Demons of Liberal Democracy, Introduction and Chapter 1

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Whether you spend the last 8 months with us, reflecting on the (im)possibilities of democracy, or haven’t been to reading group in years, you are invited to our afterparty, tomorrow Tuesday, April 16th, ~8:30pm, at Nico’s Recovery Room, for fun, comradery, and drinks. We hope to see you there!

The PCPN reading group is back next week to kick off a discussion of Radical Democracy. You can find us at Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), most Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm.

Coming up:

• 04/16 – Pabst, Adrian. The Demons of Liberal Democracy, Introduction and Chapter 1
• Join us after the meeting ~8:30pm, at Nico’s Recovery Room, for some celebratory drinks after the end of the unit!

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Please bring either a digital or hard copy of the text with you to the discussion.

Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Yinz Coffee, 4525 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (look for the nerds in the back)

SCHEDULE:

• 09/12 – Holloway, Travis. “Seven Procedures for a Democratic Future”
• 09/19 – Spinoza, Benedict. Tractatus Politicus, Preface, Chapters 1-5, 11
• 09/26 – Winstanley, Gerrard. “The True Levellers Standard Advanced”
• 10/03 – Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man, Second Part, Chapters 3-4
• 10/10 – Marx, Karl. Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Introduction and Part 2
• 10/17 – Dewey, John. “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us”; The Public and Its Problems, Chapter 5
• 10/24 – Goldman, Emma. “The Individual, Society and the State”
• 10/31 – No Meeting, Happy Halloween!
• 11/07 – Ramnath, Maia. Decolonizing Anarchy, “Decolonization: The Highest Form of Anarchism”
• 11/14 – Students for a Democratic Society, “The Port Huron Statement”
• 11/21 – Newton, Huey P. “Revolutionary Intercommunalism”
• 11/28 – Gaddafi, Muammar. “The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People” in The Green Book
• 12/05 – Walzer, Michael. “Philosophy and Democracy”
• 12/12 – Laclau, E. and Mouffe, C., “Hegemony and Radical Democracy” in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical  Democratic Politics
• 12/19-01/02 – No Meetings, Happy Holidays!
• 01/09 – Fraser, Nancy. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy”
• 01/16 – Bookchin, Murray. “Communalism: The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism”
• 01/23 – Honneth, Axel and John M. M. Farrell. “Democracy as Reflexive Cooperation: John Dewey and the Theory of Democracy Today”
• 01/30 – Badiou, Alain. “Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy” and “The Democratic Emblem”
• 02/06 – Derrida, Jacques. “The Last of the Rogue States: The Democracy to Come, Opening in Two Turns” in Rogues: Two Essays on Reason
• 02/13 – Hardt, Michael & Antonio Negri. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, 3.3 “Democracy of the Multitude”
• 02/20 – Rancière, Jacques. “From Victorious Democracy to Criminal Democracy” in The Hatred of Democracy
• 02/27 – Brown, Wendy. “We are all Democrats Now”
• 03/05 – Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Truth of Democracy
• 03/12 – Dean, Jodi. Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies, Chapter 3
• 03/19 – Öcalan, Abdulah. Democratic Confederalism
• 03/26 – Robbins, Jeff. Radical Democracy and Political Theology, Chapter 1 and Conclusion
• 04/02 – Crimethinc, From Democracy to Freedom 
• 04/09 – Esposito, Roberto. “Postdemocracy and biopolitics”
• 04/16 – Pabst, Adrian. The Demons of Liberal Democracy, Introduction and Chapter 1

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

The PCPN reading group is back next week to kick off a discussion of Radical Democracy. You can find us at Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), most Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm.

Coming up:

• 04/09 – Esposito, Roberto. “Postdemocracy and biopolitics”
• Looking ahead: Join us on 4/16, ~8:30pm, at Nico’s Recovery Room, for some celebratory drinks after the end of the unit!

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Please bring either a digital or hard copy of the text with you to the discussion.

Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Yinz Coffee, 4525 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (look for the nerds in the back)

SCHEDULE:

• 09/12 – Holloway, Travis. “Seven Procedures for a Democratic Future”
• 09/19 – Spinoza, Benedict. Tractatus Politicus, Preface, Chapters 1-5, 11
• 09/26 – Winstanley, Gerrard. “The True Levellers Standard Advanced”
• 10/03 – Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man, Second Part, Chapters 3-4
• 10/10 – Marx, Karl. Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Introduction and Part 2
• 10/17 – Dewey, John. “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us”; The Public and Its Problems, Chapter 5
• 10/24 – Goldman, Emma. “The Individual, Society and the State”
• 10/31 – No Meeting, Happy Halloween!
• 11/07 – Ramnath, Maia. Decolonizing Anarchy, “Decolonization: The Highest Form of Anarchism”
• 11/14 – Students for a Democratic Society, “The Port Huron Statement”
• 11/21 – Newton, Huey P. “Revolutionary Intercommunalism”
• 11/28 – Gaddafi, Muammar. “The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People” in The Green Book
• 12/05 – Walzer, Michael. “Philosophy and Democracy”
• 12/12 – Laclau, E. and Mouffe, C., “Hegemony and Radical Democracy” in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical  Democratic Politics
• 12/19-01/02 – No Meetings, Happy Holidays!
• 01/09 – Fraser, Nancy. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy”
• 01/16 – Bookchin, Murray. “Communalism: The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism”
• 01/23 – Honneth, Axel and John M. M. Farrell. “Democracy as Reflexive Cooperation: John Dewey and the Theory of Democracy Today”
• 01/30 – Badiou, Alain. “Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy” and “The Democratic Emblem”
• 02/06 – Derrida, Jacques. “The Last of the Rogue States: The Democracy to Come, Opening in Two Turns” in Rogues: Two Essays on Reason
• 02/13 – Hardt, Michael & Antonio Negri. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, 3.3 “Democracy of the Multitude”
• 02/20 – Rancière, Jacques. “From Victorious Democracy to Criminal Democracy” in The Hatred of Democracy
• 02/27 – Brown, Wendy. “We are all Democrats Now”
• 03/05 – Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Truth of Democracy
• 03/12 – Dean, Jodi. Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies, Chapter 3
• 03/19 – Öcalan, Abdulah. Democratic Confederalism
• 03/26 – Robbins, Jeff. Radical Democracy and Political Theology, Chapter 1 and Conclusion
• 04/02 – Crimethinc, From Democracy to Freedom 
• 04/09 – Esposito, Roberto. “Postdemocracy and biopolitics”
• 04/16 – Pabst, Adrian. The Demons of Liberal Democracy, Introduction and Chapter 1

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

The PCPN reading group is back next week to kick off a discussion of Radical Democracy. You can find us at Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), most Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm.

Coming up:

• 04/09 – Esposito, Roberto. “Postdemocracy and biopolitics”
• Looking ahead: Join us on 4/16, ~8:30pm, at Nico’s Recovery Room, for some celebratory drinks after the end of the unit!

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Please bring either a digital or hard copy of the text with you to the discussion.

Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Yinz Coffee, 4525 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (look for the nerds in the back)

SCHEDULE:

• 09/12 – Holloway, Travis. “Seven Procedures for a Democratic Future”
• 09/19 – Spinoza, Benedict. Tractatus Politicus, Preface, Chapters 1-5, 11
• 09/26 – Winstanley, Gerrard. “The True Levellers Standard Advanced”
• 10/03 – Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man, Second Part, Chapters 3-4
• 10/10 – Marx, Karl. Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Introduction and Part 2
• 10/17 – Dewey, John. “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us”; The Public and Its Problems, Chapter 5
• 10/24 – Goldman, Emma. “The Individual, Society and the State”
• 10/31 – No Meeting, Happy Halloween!
• 11/07 – Ramnath, Maia. Decolonizing Anarchy, “Decolonization: The Highest Form of Anarchism”
• 11/14 – Students for a Democratic Society, “The Port Huron Statement”
• 11/21 – Newton, Huey P. “Revolutionary Intercommunalism”
• 11/28 – Gaddafi, Muammar. “The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People” in The Green Book
• 12/05 – Walzer, Michael. “Philosophy and Democracy”
• 12/12 – Laclau, E. and Mouffe, C., “Hegemony and Radical Democracy” in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical  Democratic Politics
• 12/19-01/02 – No Meetings, Happy Holidays!
• 01/09 – Fraser, Nancy. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy”
• 01/16 – Bookchin, Murray. “Communalism: The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism”
• 01/23 – Honneth, Axel and John M. M. Farrell. “Democracy as Reflexive Cooperation: John Dewey and the Theory of Democracy Today”
• 01/30 – Badiou, Alain. “Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy” and “The Democratic Emblem”
• 02/06 – Derrida, Jacques. “The Last of the Rogue States: The Democracy to Come, Opening in Two Turns” in Rogues: Two Essays on Reason
• 02/13 – Hardt, Michael & Antonio Negri. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, 3.3 “Democracy of the Multitude”
• 02/20 – Rancière, Jacques. “From Victorious Democracy to Criminal Democracy” in The Hatred of Democracy
• 02/27 – Brown, Wendy. “We are all Democrats Now”
• 03/05 – Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Truth of Democracy
• 03/12 – Dean, Jodi. Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies, Chapter 3
• 03/19 – Öcalan, Abdulah. Democratic Confederalism
• 03/26 – Robbins, Jeff. Radical Democracy and Political Theology, Chapter 1 and Conclusion
• 04/02 – Crimethinc, From Democracy to Freedom 
• 04/09 – Esposito, Roberto. “Postdemocracy and biopolitics”
• 04/16 – Pabst, Adrian. The Demons of Liberal Democracy, Introduction and Chapter 1

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

The PCPN reading group is back next week to kick off a discussion of Radical Democracy. You can find us at Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), most Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm.

Coming up:

• 04/02 – Crimethinc, From Democracy to Freedom 

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Please bring either a digital or hard copy of the text with you to the discussion.

Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Yinz Coffee, 4525 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (look for the nerds in the back)

SCHEDULE:

• 09/12 – Holloway, Travis. “Seven Procedures for a Democratic Future”
• 09/19 – Spinoza, Benedict. Tractatus Politicus, Preface, Chapters 1-5, 11
• 09/26 – Winstanley, Gerrard. “The True Levellers Standard Advanced”
• 10/03 – Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man, Second Part, Chapters 3-4
• 10/10 – Marx, Karl. Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Introduction and Part 2
• 10/17 – Dewey, John. “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us”; The Public and Its Problems, Chapter 5
• 10/24 – Goldman, Emma. “The Individual, Society and the State”
• 10/31 – No Meeting, Happy Halloween!
• 11/07 – Ramnath, Maia. Decolonizing Anarchy, “Decolonization: The Highest Form of Anarchism”
• 11/14 – Students for a Democratic Society, “The Port Huron Statement”
• 11/21 – Newton, Huey P. “Revolutionary Intercommunalism”
• 11/28 – Gaddafi, Muammar. “The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People” in The Green Book
• 12/05 – Walzer, Michael. “Philosophy and Democracy”
• 12/12 – Laclau, E. and Mouffe, C., “Hegemony and Radical Democracy” in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical  Democratic Politics
• 12/19-01/02 – No Meetings, Happy Holidays!
• 01/09 – Fraser, Nancy. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy”
• 01/16 – Bookchin, Murray. “Communalism: The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism”
• 01/23 – Honneth, Axel and John M. M. Farrell. “Democracy as Reflexive Cooperation: John Dewey and the Theory of Democracy Today”
• 01/30 – Badiou, Alain. “Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy” and “The Democratic Emblem”
• 02/06 – Derrida, Jacques. “The Last of the Rogue States: The Democracy to Come, Opening in Two Turns” in Rogues: Two Essays on Reason
• 02/13 – Hardt, Michael & Antonio Negri. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, 3.3 “Democracy of the Multitude”
• 02/20 – Rancière, Jacques. “From Victorious Democracy to Criminal Democracy” in The Hatred of Democracy
• 02/27 – Brown, Wendy. “We are all Democrats Now”
• 03/05 – Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Truth of Democracy
• 03/12 – Dean, Jodi. Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies, Chapter 3
• 03/19 – Öcalan, Abdulah. Democratic Confederalism
• 03/26 – Robbins, Jeff. Radical Democracy and Political Theology, Chapter 1 and Conclusion
• 04/02 – Crimethinc, From Democracy to Freedom 
• 04/09 – Esposito, Roberto. “Postdemocracy and biopolitics”
• 04/16 – Pabst, Adrian. The Demons of Liberal Democracy, Introduction and Chapter 1

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

The PCPN reading group is back next week to kick off a discussion of Radical Democracy. You can find us at Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), most Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm.

Coming up:

• 04/02 – Crimethinc, From Democracy to Freedom 

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Please bring either a digital or hard copy of the text with you to the discussion.

Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Yinz Coffee, 4525 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (look for the nerds in the back)

SCHEDULE:

• 09/12 – Holloway, Travis. “Seven Procedures for a Democratic Future”
• 09/19 – Spinoza, Benedict. Tractatus Politicus, Preface, Chapters 1-5, 11
• 09/26 – Winstanley, Gerrard. “The True Levellers Standard Advanced”
• 10/03 – Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man, Second Part, Chapters 3-4
• 10/10 – Marx, Karl. Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Introduction and Part 2
• 10/17 – Dewey, John. “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us”; The Public and Its Problems, Chapter 5
• 10/24 – Goldman, Emma. “The Individual, Society and the State”
• 10/31 – No Meeting, Happy Halloween!
• 11/07 – Ramnath, Maia. Decolonizing Anarchy, “Decolonization: The Highest Form of Anarchism”
• 11/14 – Students for a Democratic Society, “The Port Huron Statement”
• 11/21 – Newton, Huey P. “Revolutionary Intercommunalism”
• 11/28 – Gaddafi, Muammar. “The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People” in The Green Book
• 12/05 – Walzer, Michael. “Philosophy and Democracy”
• 12/12 – Laclau, E. and Mouffe, C., “Hegemony and Radical Democracy” in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical  Democratic Politics
• 12/19-01/02 – No Meetings, Happy Holidays!
• 01/09 – Fraser, Nancy. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy”
• 01/16 – Bookchin, Murray. “Communalism: The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism”
• 01/23 – Honneth, Axel and John M. M. Farrell. “Democracy as Reflexive Cooperation: John Dewey and the Theory of Democracy Today”
• 01/30 – Badiou, Alain. “Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy” and “The Democratic Emblem”
• 02/06 – Derrida, Jacques. “The Last of the Rogue States: The Democracy to Come, Opening in Two Turns” in Rogues: Two Essays on Reason
• 02/13 – Hardt, Michael & Antonio Negri. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, 3.3 “Democracy of the Multitude”
• 02/20 – Rancière, Jacques. “From Victorious Democracy to Criminal Democracy” in The Hatred of Democracy
• 02/27 – Brown, Wendy. “We are all Democrats Now”
• 03/05 – Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Truth of Democracy
• 03/12 – Dean, Jodi. Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies, Chapter 3
• 03/19 – Öcalan, Abdulah. Democratic Confederalism
• 03/26 – Robbins, Jeff. Radical Democracy and Political Theology, Chapter 1 and Conclusion
• 04/02 – Crimethinc, From Democracy to Freedom 
• 04/09 – Esposito, Roberto. “Postdemocracy and biopolitics”
• 04/16 – Pabst, Adrian. The Demons of Liberal Democracy, Introduction and Chapter 1

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

The PCPN reading group is back next week to kick off a discussion of Radical Democracy. You can find us at Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), most Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm.

Coming up:

• 03/26 – Robbins, Jeff. Radical Democracy and Political Theology, Chapter 1 and Conclusion

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Please bring either a digital or hard copy of the text with you to the discussion.

Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Yinz Coffee, 4525 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (look for the nerds in the back)

SCHEDULE:

• 09/12 – Holloway, Travis. “Seven Procedures for a Democratic Future”
• 09/19 – Spinoza, Benedict. Tractatus Politicus, Preface, Chapters 1-5, 11
• 09/26 – Winstanley, Gerrard. “The True Levellers Standard Advanced”
• 10/03 – Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man, Second Part, Chapters 3-4
• 10/10 – Marx, Karl. Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Introduction and Part 2
• 10/17 – Dewey, John. “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us”; The Public and Its Problems, Chapter 5
• 10/24 – Goldman, Emma. “The Individual, Society and the State”
• 10/31 – No Meeting, Happy Halloween!
• 11/07 – Ramnath, Maia. Decolonizing Anarchy, “Decolonization: The Highest Form of Anarchism”
• 11/14 – Students for a Democratic Society, “The Port Huron Statement”
• 11/21 – Newton, Huey P. “Revolutionary Intercommunalism”
• 11/28 – Gaddafi, Muammar. “The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People” in The Green Book
• 12/05 – Walzer, Michael. “Philosophy and Democracy”
• 12/12 – Laclau, E. and Mouffe, C., “Hegemony and Radical Democracy” in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical  Democratic Politics
• 12/19-01/02 – No Meetings, Happy Holidays!
• 01/09 – Fraser, Nancy. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy”
• 01/16 – Bookchin, Murray. “Communalism: The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism”
• 01/23 – Honneth, Axel and John M. M. Farrell. “Democracy as Reflexive Cooperation: John Dewey and the Theory of Democracy Today”
• 01/30 – Badiou, Alain. “Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy” and “The Democratic Emblem”
• 02/06 – Derrida, Jacques. “The Last of the Rogue States: The Democracy to Come, Opening in Two Turns” in Rogues: Two Essays on Reason
• 02/13 – Hardt, Michael & Antonio Negri. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, 3.3 “Democracy of the Multitude”
• 02/20 – Rancière, Jacques. “From Victorious Democracy to Criminal Democracy” in The Hatred of Democracy
• 02/27 – Brown, Wendy. “We are all Democrats Now”
• 03/05 – Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Truth of Democracy
• 03/12 – Dean, Jodi. Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies, Chapter 3
• 03/19 – Öcalan, Abdulah. Democratic Confederalism
• 03/26 – Robbins, Jeff. Radical Democracy and Political Theology, Chapter 1 and Conclusion
• 04/02 – Crimethinc, From Democracy to Freedom 
• 04/09 – Esposito, Roberto. “Postdemocracy and biopolitics”
• 04/16 – Pabst, Adrian. The Demons of Liberal Democracy, Introduction and Chapter 1

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE