The Meditations by Descartes, Husserl and Nancy
Phenomenology Reading Group, 2016-2017
Wednesday
5pm, fortnightly
Venue: Please check the dates below
First session:
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Room A213A, Samuel Alexander Building
Room A213A, Samuel Alexander Building
Letter to the Sorbonne, Preface to the
reader, Synopsis and the first two meditations by Descartes
The Manchester Phenomenology Reading Group dedicates the 2016-2017
academic year to René Descartes’ Meditations and their reception by
Edmund Husserl and Jean-Luc Nancy. The reading group meets for 12 sessions,
six in the Autumn, and six in the Spring term. We are reading Descartes in our
first three sessions and will set readings for the subsequent weeks according
to our reading pace.
Reference texts and notes:
Descartes, René. Meditations on first philosophy: With selections
from the objections and replies, a Latin-English edition. Translated by
John Cottingham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
This bilingual
translation is available as an e-Book via the Library catalogue of the
University of Manchester (http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139042895).
John Cottingham’s translation is available in previous print editions in the
Library, and can be purchased in paperback on abebooks.co.uk.
Husserl, Edmund. Cartesian meditations: An introduction to
phenomenology. Translated by Dorion Cairns.
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1960.
There are numerous
reprints of this first English translation, and a few copies are available in
the Library. A PDF of the 1979 seventh reprint can be accessed in our dropbox folder.
Nancy, Jean-Luc. Ego sum: Corpus, anima, fabula. Translated by
Marie-Eve Morin. First edition. ed. New
York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2016.
This is the first,
hot from the press English translation which we have suggested for purchase for
the Library. A PDF of Nancy’ 1979 French original can be accessed in our
dropbox folder.
Method:
We read around 20-40 pages for each session. The 90-minute sessions usually conclude with note-taking, and the
bullet-points are subsequently circulated among the participants.
Sessions in the Autumn term 2016:
Wednesday 28 September, 5pm, Room A213A (Sam Alex)
Wednesday 12 October, 5pm, Room A213A (Sam Alex)
Wednesday 26 October, 5pm, Room A202 (Sam Alex)
Wednesday 9 November, 5pm, Room A215 (Sam Alex)
Wednesday 23 November, 5pm, Room A215 (Sam Alex)
Wednesday 7 December, 5pm, Room A215 (Sam Alex)
The reading group is open to all.
