Indiana University Bloomington

Reading Group

The Center’s Reading Group meets Fridays, 2:00 – 3:30

Current Text: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

History of Texts Read:

Fall 2004: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
Spring 2005: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible
Fall 2005: Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences
Spring 2006: Alain Badiou, Being and Event
Fall 2006: Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory
Spring 2007: Gilles Deleuze, Cinema I
Fall 2007: Slavoj Zizek, The Puppet and the Dwarf
Spring 2008: Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Fall 2008: Jacques Rancière, The Names of History
Spring 2009: Plato, The Laws
Summer 2009: Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
Fall 2009: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe
Spring 2010 Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method
Summer 2010: Stanley Cavell, The Claims of Reason

Additional Readings:

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Moran The Expression of Feeling in Imagination
Walton Fearing Fictions
Diamond Losing Your Concepts
Crowell Heidegger on Practical Reasoning: Morality and Agency
Hopkins The Philosophy of Husserl (excerpts)
Murdoch Against Dryness
Raffoul Factical Life and the Need for Philosophy