Saturday, October 31, 2009

The Public and the Private Realm

The fourteenth forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday the 6th of November. We will meet at 6:50pm for a 7pm start - See side bar for venue details.

Continuing from our readings and discussion on Arendt, this month we will be taking a look at her essay The Public and the Private Realm from the chapter The Vita Activa from The Portable Hannah Arendt

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Labor, Work, Action

The thirteenth forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday the 2nd of October. We will meet at 6:50pm for a 7pm start - See side bar for venue details.

This meeting we will be discussing the first installment --Labor, Work, Action-- of the chapter The Vita Activa from The Portable Hannah Arendt

Monday, August 31, 2009

The Perplexities of the Rights of Man

The twelftth forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday the 4th of September. We will meet at 7:50pm for a 8pm start - See side bar for venue details.

This meeting we will be discussing Hannah Arendt's text The Perplexities of the Rights on Man.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy

The eleventh forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday the 1st of May. We will meet at 6.45pm for a 7pm start - See side bar for venue details.

This meeting we will be beginning Pierre Hadot's book, Philosophy as a Way of Life. First up be chapter 1: Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

The Social Dynamics of Disrespect: On the Location of Critical Theory Today

The tenth forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday the 20th of March. We will meet at 6.45pm for a 7pm start - See side bar for venue details.

This meeting we will be focusing on Axel Honneth's 1993 inaugural lecture at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University Berlin, The Social Dynamics of Disrespect: On the Location of Critical Theory Today. In some respects, this text will be a lead-in to our study of Honneth's The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts, beginning next month.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Oldest System Programme of German Idealism

The ninth forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday the 5th of February. We will meet at 6.45pm for a 7pm start - See side bar for venue details.

The forum will be focused on Hegel's early essay Oldest System Programme of German Idealism. To accompany Hegel's essay, you can also read Politics and the New Mythology: the turn to Late Romanticism

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Foucault and Habermas

The seventh forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday the 7th of November. We will meet at 6.45pm for a 7pm start - See side bar for venue details.

The forum will be focused on Michel Foucault's paper The Subject and Power, as well as, Bent Flyvbjerg's text Habermas and Foucault:Thinkers for Civil Society?.