Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group

The Fear of Four Words: A Modest Plea for the Hegelian Reading of Christianity

2010-05-09T19:26:00.002+10:00

The seventeenth forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday the 14th of May. We will meet at 6:50pm for a 7pm start - See side bar for venue details.

This month we will be taking a look at an essay written by the Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek titled The Fear of Four Words: A Modest Plea for the Hegelian Reading of Christianity from the book The Monstrosity of Christ. The Monstrosity of Christ is a collaborative effort with John Millbank.

The Social Question

2010-01-04T20:38:00.000+11:00

The sixteenth forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday the 8th of January. 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 Social Question" from the chapter The Vita Activa from The Portable Hannah Arendt

Reflections on Little Rock

2009-12-08T14:43:00.002+11:00

The fifteenth forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday the 11th of December. 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 "Reflections on Little Rock" from the chapter The Vita Activa from The Portable Hannah Arendt

The Public and the Private Realm

2009-10-31T08:13:00.003+11:00

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

Labor, Work, Action

2009-09-23T17:36:00.002+10:00

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

The Perplexities of the Rights of Man

2009-08-31T16:58:00.003+10:00

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.

Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy

2009-04-25T12:08:00.003+10:00

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.

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

2009-03-14T14:05:00.002+11:00

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.

Oldest System Programme of German Idealism

2009-01-21T20:01:00.003+11:00

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

Foucault and Habermas

2008-10-23T18:39:00.003+11:00

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?.

Foucault's "The Subject and Power"

2008-09-10T16:13:00.002+10:00

The sixth forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday the 3rd of October. 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".

Honneth's "Negative Freedom and Cultural Belonging"

2008-08-13T19:56:00.005+10:00

The fifth forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Saturday the 30th of September. We will meet at 6.45pm for a 7pm start - See side bar for venue details.

The forum will be focused on Axel Honneth's paper "Negative Freedom and Cultural Belonging: An Unhealthy Tension in the Political Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin". Aside from the main text, you may also like to read Isaiah Berlin's Two Concepts of Liberty.

Kant's "What is Enlightenment?"

2008-07-30T19:18:00.003+10:00

The fourth forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday the 8th of August. We will meet at 6.45pm for a 7pm start - See side bar for venue details.

The forum will be focused on Kant's paper "What is Enlightenment?". To give our discussion a more contemporary flavour, we will also be drawing on Foucault's text "What is Enlightenment?", as well as Katerina Deligiori's Kant and The Culture of Enlightenment.

On the Analytic/Continental divide

2008-07-07T16:40:00.002+10:00

The third forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday the 18th of July. We will meet at 6.45pm for a 7pm start - See side bar for venue details.

The forum will be focused on a paper written by Phil Quadrio on the Analytic/Continental divide, which can be downloaded from here

Alain Badiou: Philosophy and the 'War against Terror'

2008-06-09T10:06:00.005+10:00

The second forum for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Saturday June 28th, we will meet at 6.45pm for a 7pm start. (See side bar for venue details).

The forum will be focused on Alain Badiou's text Philosophy and the 'War against Terror', which can be downloaded from here.

Žižek VS Critchley

2008-05-28T15:33:00.002+10:00

On the back of our recent discussions on Critchley, I have come across Žižek's review of Critchley's new book Infinitely Demanding. Also, Critchley's reply in kind.

UPDATE: Critchley on Rousseau fourm.

2008-05-16T10:37:00.006+10:00

Ok, so here are the updated details for the first Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group gathering.

As you already know we will be discussing Simon Critchley's article The Catechism of the Citizen: Politics, Law and Religion In, After, With and Against Rousseau, which can be downloaded here.

The details are as follows:

The Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group
First Meeting: Simon Critchley on Rousseau
When: Friday May 23rd, 6.45pm for 7pm start
Where: Two Doors Cafe - (287 Great Western Highway, Lawson, N.S.W - Australia)
What: Light meal and philosophy discussion
Cost: $15 (costs include meal and use of venue)
Format: Electronic versions of texts to be circulated to participants via email subscription, or alternately you can down load text from here, prior to the meeting. One participant will kick off proceedings by offering a five minute response to the text. Followed by discussion and the responses of others.

For those interested in participating, could you please email me here to confirm spot as we need to confirm numbers for meals.

Simon Critchley's "The Catechism of the Citizen: Politics, Law and Religion In, After, With and Against Rousseau"

2008-05-03T15:09:00.003+10:00

The first meeting for the Blue Mountains Continental Philosophy Group will be on Friday May 23rd, we will meet at 6.45pm for a 7pm start. (See side bar for venue details).

Our first discussion will be centered around Simon Critchley's article The Catechism of the Citizen: Politics, Law and Religion In, After, With and Against Rousseau, which can be downloaded from the Law and Humanities Journal website here.