Reading for 25/26

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Landes

We will read the book in fortnightly sessions, starting 24 September 2025.

Meetings by zoom Wednesdays 5pm–6.30 UK time

Provisional dates for Semester 1:

Wednesday 24 September

Wednesday 8 October

Wednesday 22 October 

Wednesday 5 November

Wednesday 19 November

Wednesday 3 Dec (possibly hybrid tbc)

Wednesday17 December

 

We will use Donald A. Landes' translation of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge 2012).

At the meeting on 24 September we will discuss the first two sections of the "Introduction", so up to p.27 and MMP’s own preface (p. lxxi-lxxxv).

 Deleuze

Difference and Repetition

Last meeting of the academic year, 28 May 2025, in person and via zoom.

Concluding our reading of the “Conclusion” (from p. 370) and of the whole book, we meet in Manchester University in-person and by zoom. 

Our meeting starts at the usual time of 5pm and is followed by a meal for those you want to join us. 

For a zoom link or room information, please contact alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk.

 Deleuze, Difference and Repetition

Meeting 14 May 5pm Uk time by Zoom

We will discuss the first half of the Conclusion chapter (in the English Bloomsbury 2014 edition up to p. 370). 

Please get in touch with Alex Samely for a link. 

Deleuze

Difference and Repetition

Next meeting (by zoom) 30 April 5pm UK time

We will discuss the second half of Chapter 5 from “When we say that the eternal return…..” until p. 340 (in the 2014 English pagination).

Please get in touch with Alex Samely if you want to join. 

 Deleuze

Difference and Repetition

Next meeting Wednesday 2 April at 5pm by zoom

We begin Chapter 5 “Asymmetrical Synthesis of the Sensible” up to page 316 which finishes with the words volcanic spatium (2014 English pagination).

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

 Meeting 19 March

Deleuze Difference and Repetition

We will discuss the final part of Chapter 4, "Ideas and the Synthesis of Difference", reading from pages 265 - 287 in the English 2014 edition.

Deleuze meeting

Difference and Repetition

By zoom 

5 March at 5pm

We will be concerned with pages 245-265 of the 2014 English translation (ending with the paragraph that has the final words “illusion of consciousness”).

If you wish to participate, please get in touch with Alex Samely (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk ).

A note for your diaries: the meeting that falls on Wednesday 28 May 2025 will take place in-person at Manchester University.