The Manchester Phenomenology Reading Group returns to Heidegger in the academic year (2017-2018).
Semester 2:
The new Semester's meetings will be:
Wed 31 Jan
Wed 14 Feb
Wed 28 Feb
Wed 7 March [NOTE ONLY ONE WEEK GAP]
Wed 21 March
Wed 18 April
Wed 2 May
Wed 16 May
We will complete the final lectures of Was heisst Denken? on 31 January, before making the transition to The Principle of Reason (some details below). We meet in the same room as before.
Earlier, Semester 1:
The new Semester's meetings will be:
Wed 31 Jan
Wed 14 Feb
Wed 28 Feb
Wed 7 March [NOTE ONLY ONE WEEK GAP]
Wed 21 March
Wed 18 April
Wed 2 May
Wed 16 May
We will complete the final lectures of Was heisst Denken? on 31 January, before making the transition to The Principle of Reason (some details below). We meet in the same room as before.
Earlier, Semester 1:
The first meeting is dedicated to Heidegger's Letter on Humanism (see links for pdf below) and it will be held in Room 1 of the SALC Graduate School at 5 pm on Wednesday 27 September. The room is marked as CG 59 of the Ellen Wilkinson Building, that is, it is to be found on the ground floor of the North-Easterly C-part of the building. The Graduate School's entrance is opposite to the South entrance of the Humanities building. Please try to read the text before the meeting.
Meetings are fortnightly, always at 5 pm on Wednesday. Here is the complete list of dates for the Autumn term:
Wed 27 September
Wed 11 October
Wed 25 October
Wed 8 November
Wed 22 November
Wed 6 December
There is a possibility for an additional meeting before the Winter break which will be confirmed later.
Readings are:
1. Heidegger, Letter on Humanism (English and German here attached)
2. Heidegger, What is Called Thinking? (trans. Gray, 1972, in our Library Blue Area Floor 3 (111.1 H98) = Was heisst Denken?, [in our library currently: Floor 3 (109.439 H106 )
3. Heidegger, The Principle of Reason, English: on order for the library; German: Der Satz vom Grund, ed. P. Jaeger, in our library currently in Store (109.439 H106 )
We may fit in at some point Nancy's article "Heidegger's originary ethics".
What is Called Thinking? and The Principle of Reason are lecture series which Heidegger gave after the war and then published in the 1950s. For each book, there are two German editions available: the original (Neske, Pfullingen; Niemeyer, Tübingen ) and a one volume each of the Gesamtausgabe (Klostermann, Frankfurt); there are almost no differences in the text between the two versions. There are some additional comments in the latter, which Alex Samely possesses and he is happy share.
Resources:
Was heisst Denken (in German) and What is Called Thinking (in English); Nancy "Heidegger's Originary Ethics"
There is no trace of a pdf copy of The Principle of Reason (Indiana UP, in press) or its German original on the Internet, so you may have to buy a copy (Library has one copy or will have, see above).
