Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 15 December and deal with chapter 2 of Henry's Barbarism, taking us up to page 38.

You may also find the following information interesting. It relates to Hannah Arendt, the author we were concerned with earlier this Semester, and the whole of last year. We read The Life of the Mind and her lectures on Kant's political philosophy.

1. The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College had a reading group on The Life of the Mind, which ran 2019 and was recorded, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIMICkj6QOo&list=PLYW5qHLZjOWHo6acyqf1qEyK3qCEQwfgb
   

2. And in the first podcast, a forthcoming critical edition of The Life of the Mind was mentioned, with interesting divergences from the version we read (the only one currently available still, it seems). Here is the edition's announcement, apparently out this year:  https://www.arendteditionprojekt.de/en/projekt/Editorial-Plan/index.html 
   

 We are starting a new book, Michel Henry's Barbarism. See details in earlier post.

Our first meeting on the opening matter, but in particular on Chapter 1, will be on Wed 1 December at 5pm by zoom. 

Please get in touch with Alex Samely (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk) for the zoom link or help with getting hold of the book. 

Our next meeting will be on Wed 17 November at 5pm. 

We will be discussing the final piece from Arendt's Kant book, up to p. 85 ("Imagination"), 

The meeting after will be our first dedicated to Henry, Barbarism. 

Please get in touch if you require the zoom link (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk)

 

 Meeting 3 November, 5pm by zoom

We are reading up to page 65 in Hannah Arendt's Kant book.

For zoom link, please contact alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk

 Second Meeting Wednesday 20 October at 5pm. 

We are reading Arendt's Kant book up to page 40. 

All welcome. Contact me for zoom link (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk)

 First meeting by zoom 6 October at 5pm 

We are going to discuss Arendt's Kant book (details below) up to page 22. 

If you wish to take part please email me for a zoom link (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk)

List of Texts for 2021-22

Texts for 2021–22

We have decided to read next academic year: 

 

1. Hannah Arendt, Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, ed. Ronald Beiner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982)

2.  Michel Henry, Barbarism, trans. Scott Davidson (London: Continuum, 2004; French original 1987)

3. Jean-Luc Nancy, The Muses, trans. Peggy Kamuf (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996; French original 1994).

First meeting of the next Semester will be (by zoom) on 6 October at 5pm, when we will begin with Arendt's book, which has been interpreted as the 'missing' final part on "Judging" of our reading last year, her The Life of the Mind: Thinking and Willing.

 Semester 2 Schedule of Meetings

3 Feb

17 Feb

3 March

17 March

14 April

28 April

12 May

26 May

2 June

16 June