A few of you who attended the Philosophy Workshop back in September may have an interest in the upcoming Philosophy Cafe readings. This group meets at the Barnes and Noble in Town and Country from 4-6 pm every third Sunday.
Our next set of readings (see below) features mostly short readings from Hegel and some more or less contemporary European Hegelians. One of those, Slavoj Zizek, has said that the 21st will be Hegel's century.
The first 2 readings, for our next meeting on February 19, are attached. Both of these readings combined amount to less than 40 pages. By the way, these readings are somewhat complementary. The Introduction to the Encyclopedia Logic seems to deal more with the question, what is philosophy? The Introduction to the Science of Logic deals more with Hegel's view of the nature of logic. Both will be important as we move into the Introductions to the second and third parts of the Encyclopedia.
Here is the projected schedule of readings:
Philosophy Cafe Readings: Hegel, Zizek, Lacan, Badiou, Zupancic
- 2/2012: Hegel, Introduction to Part 1 of the Encyclopedia (Logic) AND Introduction from the Science of Logic
- 3/2012: Hegel, Introduction to Part 2 of the Encyclopedia (Philosophy of Nature)
- 4/2012: Hegel, Introduction to Part 3 of the Encyclopedia (Philosophy of Spirit) AND Introduction to the Philosophy of Right
- 5/2112: Zizek on Hegel and Lacan
- The Most Sublime of Hysterics: Hegel with Lacan (11 pp.)
- Lacan: at What Point is He Hegelian? (6 pp.)
- 6/2012: Zizek on Lacan
- Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (188 pp.)
- 7/2012: Lacan: 2 selections from Ecrits
- Seminar on “The Purloined letter” http://www.lacan.com/purloined.htm (44 pp.) (1st reading in Ecrits)
- Science and Truth (20 pp.) (Last reading in Ecrits)
- 8/2012: Badiou: 2 selections from Conditions and an essay on Lacan
- The (Re)turn of Philosophy Itself (20 pp.)
- Definition of Philosophy (3pp.)
- Lacan and the Presocratics (7 pp.)
- 9/2012 and beyond: Either or both?
- Zizek, The Parallax View (448 pp.) [2009; "Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus"]
- Alenka Zupancic,The Odd One In: On Comedy (240 pp.)
Best wishes,
Bill Hord
