Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network

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This week the reading group will be taking a look at the first half (roughly pp. 195-219) of Slavoj Žižek’s “Is it still possible to be a Hegelian today?” Here Žižek will attempt to deconstruct the traditional reading of Hegel, countering with a reading that emphasizes the materialism, contingency, and retroactivity at the heart of Hegel’s project. Ever wonder if you could change the past? Come on over tomorrow night, and you will find out that you can! (no time machine necessary)

As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet or if you missed a few meetings, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.

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When/where: 8:00pm, Tinder Bar + Kitchen, Lawrenceville

First: after last week’s slog through an unexpectedly long Derrida text (my bad), we will take it a little lighter this week with a chapter out of Malabou’s The Future of Hegel, and ask: can sublation (Aufhebung) itself be plastic? In other words — and to return to the question that has haunted this entire spring — is there room for continegency in Hegel’s philosophy, or is Hegel’s thought truly the violent, dominating force that he is often said to be?

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

Second: this wednesday is the last day to send in abstracts or papers for the 2015 meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences which is meeting in Atlanta. I’ll be there, you should be there too!

Third: This Friday, C.D.C. Reeve of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, will be giving a lecture at Duquesne University as part of the philosophy department’s speaker series.

Plastic Hegel… get it.

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

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.