The Meditations by Descartes, Husserl and Nancy

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

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.

If you are interested in joining us, or have some questions, please contact Marton Ribary:

marton.ribary@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk