Events
The German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and discussing classic texts in German philosophy in their original form. The seminar offers an opportunity for close reading and discussion of a selection of seminal texts in the history of German thought and - where relevant - to practice German philosophy reading skills.
In the academic year 2009-2010 we will discuss Hegel's Wissenschaft der Logik and the philosophical Volksbuch, story and aphorism in the work of some Hegelian Marxists who have often also been inspired by Johann Peter Hebel. Details for the later meetings will be available in due course.
Hegel's Wissenschaft der Logik (1812, 1831) contains the development of the idea of dialectical reason and forms the basis of his philosophical system. It has exercised a profound influence, and has attracted profound criticism as well, in philosophy and beyond. Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, existentialism, hermeneutics and significant parts of more contemporary discussions in philosophy (Zizek, Honneth, Brandom) refer intrinsically, if sometimes implicitly, to the themes of the Logik. The work has been called the 'algebra of the revolution'. Hegel himself spoke of a 'deep principle' for the modern world.
Please register in advance with the Convener, Dr Johan Siebers
Monday, 28 September 2009
4 - 6 p.m. in Room STB 6, Stewart House (basement)
Hegel: Wissenschaft der Logik (Vorreden und Einleitung)
Monday, 19 October 2009
4 - 6 p.m. in Room STB 6, Stewart House (basement)
Hegel: Wissenschaft der Logik, 1: Die Lehre vom Sein: 'Womit muss der Anfang der Wissenschaft gemacht werden?' und 'Allgemeine Einteilung des Seins'
Monday, 9 November 2009
4 - 6 p.m. in Room STB 9, Stewart House (basement)
Hegel: Wissenschaft der Logik, 1: Die Lehre vom Sein, I: Bestimmtheit (Qualität), Kapitel 1-2: 'Sein', 'Das Dasein'
Monday, 14 December 2009
4 - 6 p.m. in Room STB 9, Stewart House (basement)
H.G. Gadamer: Die Idee der Hegelschen Logik (1971)
Monday, 11 January 2010
4 - 6 p.m. in Room ST 273, Stewart House (second floor)
Johann Peter Hebel: Schatzkästlein des Rheinischen Hausfreundes (1811; selection)
Background reading: Ernest Bloch: 'Nachwort zu Hebels Schatzkästlein' (1965; in Literarische Aufsätze, Gesamtausgabe, Bd. 9, pp. 172-183)
Monday, 8 February 2010
4 - 6 p.m. in Room ST 273, Stewart House (second floor)
Walter Benjamin: Einbahnstraße (1928; selection)
Monday, 8 March 2010
4 - 6 p.m. in Room ST 276, Stewart House (second floor)
Walter Benjamin: Einbahnstraße (1928; selection)
Monday, 12 April 2010 - CANCELLED: RESCHEDULED FOR 19 APRIL
4 - 6 p.m. in Room ST 276, Stewart House (second floor)
Ernst Bloch: Spuren (1930, 1959; selection)
Monday, 19 April 2010 - INSTEAD OF 12 APRIL
4 - 6 p.m. in Room G32, Senate House South Block (ground floor)
Ernst Bloch: Spuren (1930, 1959; selection)
Monday, 10 May 2010
4 - 6 p.m. in Room ST 276, Stewart House (second floor)
Ernst Bloch: Spuren (1930, 1959; selection)
Monday, 7 June 2010 - CANCELLED
4 - 6 p.m. in Room ST 273, Stewart House (second floor)
Theodor W. Adorno: Minima Moralia - Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben (1951; selection)
Monday, 5 July 2010
4 - 6 p.m. in Room ST 276, Stewart House (second floor)
Theodor W. Adorno: Minima Moralia - Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben (1951; selection)