Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network

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:

• 10/03 – Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man, Second Part, Chapters 3-4

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 “Democracy”
• 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 – Horkheimer, Max. Critical Theory: Selected Essays, Preface and Introduction
• 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:

• 10/03 – Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man, Second Part, Chapters 3-4

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 “Democracy”
• 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 – Horkheimer, Max. Critical Theory: Selected Essays, Preface and Introduction
• 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:

• 09/26 – Winstanley, Gerrard. “The True Levellers Standard Advanced”

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 “Democracy”
• 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 – Horkheimer, Max. Critical Theory: Selected Essays, Preface and Introduction
• 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), Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm, starting September 12th.

Coming up:

• 09/12 – Holloway, Travis. “Seven Procedures for a Democratic Future”

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 “Democracy”
• 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 – Horkheimer, Max. Critical Theory: Selected Essays, Preface and Introduction
• 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), Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm, starting September 12th.

Coming up:

• 09/12 – Holloway, Travis. “Seven Procedures for a Democratic Future”

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 “Democracy”
• 10/17 – Dewey, John. “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us”
• 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 – Horkheimer, Max. Critical Theory: Selected Essays, Preface and Introduction
• 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

Need even more continental philosophy in your life? The Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences is hosting a free and public online reading group of the phenomenological sociologist Alfred Schutz’s The Phenomenology of the Social World. Each monthly meeting (Sept.-Nov.) features a short mini-lecture by a prominent scholar of Schutz, followed by a seminar-style discussion of the chapters.

REGISTER NOW!

Schedule:

• September 18: Intro, Preface, Chapter 1 (Carlos Belvedere)
• October 16: Chapters 2-3 (Daniela López)
• November 13: Chapters 4-5 (Michael Barber)

In order to accommodate the different time zones of the presenters, all three meetings will be held at 6:00pm ET.

Get the book here:

https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810103900/phenomenology-of-the-social-world/
https://www.amazon.com/Phenomenology-Social-Studies-Existential-Philosophy/dp/0810103907

The PCPN reading group is back soon, with a discussion of Continental Philosophy and Radical Democracy. You can find us at Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm, starting September 12th.

Punk Rock Academy is back and ready to riot. Tomorrow’s program will feature a presentation by the sociologist Ben Case, author of Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence with music by Edwin Everhart leader of Pittsburgh’s Labor Choir.

Aug. 8 | 8:00pm | 331 S. Pacific Ave

Around the world instances of riots and mass protest have skyrocketed, part of an increasing trend for the past two decades. We find ourselves in an era of mass uprisings, fueled by popular frustrations with compounding crises of deep inequality, injustice, and state violence. Yet the ways we talk about these rebellions in the US is largely shaped by a “violence-vs-nonviolence” discourse that no longer fits the reality on the ground. This talk presents updated research on riots and protests to help disentangle reality from misconception.

Punk Rock Academy is back and ready to riot. Tomorrow’s program will feature a presentation by the sociologist Ben Case, author of Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence with music by Edwin Everhart leader of Pittsburgh’s Labor Choir.

Aug. 8 | 8:00pm | 331 S. Pacific Ave

Around the world instances of riots and mass protest have skyrocketed, part of an increasing trend for the past two decades. We find ourselves in an era of mass uprisings, fueled by popular frustrations with compounding crises of deep inequality, injustice, and state violence. Yet the ways we talk about these rebellions in the US is largely shaped by a “violence-vs-nonviolence” discourse that no longer fits the reality on the ground. This talk presents updated research on riots and protests to help disentangle reality from misconception.

After a long, Covid-shaped hiatus, Punk Rock Academy is back and ready to riot. Next month’s program will feature a presentation by the sociologist Ben Case, author of Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence with music by Edwin Everhart leader of Pittsburgh’s Labor Choir.

Aug. 8 | 8:00pm | 331 S. Pacific Ave

Around the world instances of riots and mass protest have skyrocketed, part of an increasing trend for the past two decades. We find ourselves in an era of mass uprisings, fueled by popular frustrations with compounding crises of deep inequality, injustice, and state violence. Yet the ways we talk about these rebellions in the US is largely shaped by a “violence-vs-nonviolence” discourse that no longer fits the reality on the ground. This talk presents updated research on riots and protests to help disentangle reality from misconception.