Second meeting on Nancy's The Muses on 6 April

We spent our time yesterday discussing some of the key themes up to page 24. We had a GREAT time doing so. 

We will meet on 6 April to discuss in particular themes from the second half of Nancy's first Chapter, up to page 39.

 Starting a new work

On 23 March 5pm we will begin to discuss Jean-Luc Nancy, The Muses, trans. Peggy Kamuf (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996; French original 1994).

We will read for this meeting up to p. 39. 

If you wish to receive a zoom invite, please get in touch with alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk, ditto if you need help with getting hold of a text. 

 

 On Wednesday 2nd March, we are planning to discuss the remaining parts of Henry's Barbarism, that is, chapter 7 and conclusion. 

At the meeting after that (to be confirmed), we will begin: Jean-Luc Nancy, The Muses, trans. Peggy Kamuf (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996; French original 1994).

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

 

 On 16 February we will discuss Henry's Barbarism, Chapter 6 (to page 114). 

If you need the zoom link, please get in touch with alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk. 

 We discussed chapters 3 and 4 of Henry's Barbarism on 19 January. Our next meeting will on 2nd February, devoted to chapter 5. 

 

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.