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Don’t miss Dylan Trigg, this thursday (Nov. 20th) at 6:00pm

18 Nov

Thursday evening at 6:00pm, Dylan Trigg of the University of Memphis, will be presenting “On Non-Phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty,” at the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center. This lecture is not to be missed.

Dylan Trigg is a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow at the University of Memphis, Department of Philosophy (in conjunction with Shaun Gallagher) and at University College Dublin (in conjunction with Dermot Moran) working on the phenomenology of anxiety.

His research includes: phenomenology (especially Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Bachelard); psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan); and various aspects of bodily existence (intersubjectivity, identity, and alterity).

He is the author of the following books:

  • Topophobia (Forthcoming – London: Bloomsbury)
  • The Thing: a Phenomenology of Horror (Winchester: Zero Books, 2014)
  • The Memory of Place: a Phenomenology of the Uncanny (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012)
  • The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia and the Absence of Reason (New York: Peter Lang, 2006)

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This Week’s Deleuze Reading Group Link

23 Jun

This Week’s Reading Group Link

9 Jun

Reading Group Link

2 Jun

A Special Thank You (or Three)

22 Mar

A special thanks to Dr. Tom Sparrow, the East End Book Exchange, and to everyone who showed up last night for a great lecture and Q+A session .

Like what you heard? Pick up one of Tom’s books:

Did you miss it? Don’t worry, we’ll be having our next bi-yearly lecture next fall, stay tuned for more info.

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Encounter Opportunity:

12 Mar

Join Pittsburgh’s own Encounter Group this Saturday at 6:00pm for an opporunity to examine yourself and others in an intense, intimate environment of psychological and existential study. The event is Capped at 14, so sign up now! Link

This Week:

20 Oct
  • 10/20, 10:30pm – The Online Deleuze Reading Group will be discussing the first have of Difference and Repetition chapter 4.
  • 10/22, 6:00pm – The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be reading Michel Foucault’s “Discourse on Language.”
  • 10/22, 7:30pm – Dr. Jon Levenson will be presenting “Abraham and the Absoluteness of God” at Duquesne University.
  • 10/23, 4:00pm – The Phenomenology and Religion Reading Circle will be reading Derrida’s Given Time, chapter 3.

This Week:

1 Oct
  • 10/01, The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network will be continuing its trek through Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible, with a discussion on the “Chiasm.”
  • 10/02, The Phenomenology and Religion Reading Circle will be prefacing its discussion of the phenomenology of the gift, with a look at Marcel Mass’ “The Gift.”
  • 10/6, The Online Deleuze Discussion Group will be continuing through Difference and Repetition, Chapter 3.

Phenomenology & Religion Reading Circle Kickoff

18 Sep

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the Phenomenology & Religion reading group. This fall we will be examining the debate surrounding the “gift,” particularly in the work of Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion. We will be meeting at 619 Fisher Hall at Duquesne, at 4:oo on Wednesdays. Hope to see you there! 

More information and PDF’s can be found here.

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Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group Returns: Tues 8/27, 6-8PM

22 Aug

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Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group returns on Tuesday, August 27th from 6-8PM @ East End Book Exchange  (4754 Liberty Ave in Bloomfield).  We will be reading Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s text “The Visible and the Invisible” and will be discussing the chapter entitled “Reflection and Interrogation” on the 27th.  You can download all readings at pghcprg.com.