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Critical Theory & Philosophy - Year One
Introduction
Welcome to the Critical Theory & Philosophy Reading Group
Reading Schedule
Reading Group Participant Introductions
Private Facebook Group
Further Reading & Resources
A Comprehensive History of Philosophy
The Best Books for Studying Literary & Critical Theory
Live Discussion Recordings
Friedrich Nietzsche & Henri Bergson (117:20)
Sigmund Freud & Ferdinand de Saussure (102:18)
Martin Heidegger (73:37)
Gaston Bachelard (124:24)
Jean-Paul Sartre (102:23)
Albert Camus (135:51)
Kenneth Burke (118:13)
Jacques Lacan (118:59)
Mari Ruti (115:32)
Simone de Beauvoir (103:06)
Irvin D. Yalom (113:28)
Friedrich Nietzsche - January 2018
Truth and Lie in an Ultramoral Sense
Reading Introduction
Truth and Lie in an Extra Moral Sense
Discussion Questions
Further Reading & Resources
Henri Bergson - January 2018
Matter and Memory
Reading Introduction
Discussion Questions
Further Reading & Resources
Sigmund Freud - February 2018
Creative Writers and Daydreaming
Reading Introduction
Discussion Questions
Further Reading & Resources
Ferdinand de Saussure - February 2018
Reading Selection
Reading Introduction
Course in General Linguistics
Discussion Questions
Further Reading & Resources
Martin Heidegger - March 2018
What is Metaphysics?
Reading Introduction
What is Metaphysics?
Discussion Questions
Further Reading & Resources
Gaston Bachelard - April 2018
Reading Selection
Reading Introduction
Water and Imagination: Imagination and Matter
Discussion Questions
Further Reading & Resources
Paul Valery - May 2018
Reading Selection
Reading Introduction
Poetry and Abstract Thought
Discussion Questions
Further Reading & Resources
Jean Paul Sartre - June 2018
Reading Selection
Reading Introduction
The Imaginary: The Psychology of the Imagination
Discussion Questions
Further Reading & Resources
Albert Camus - July 2018
Reading Selection
Reading Introduction
The Myth of Sisyphus
Discussion Questions
Further Reading & Resources
Kenneth Burke - August 2018
Reading Selection
Reading Introduction
Discussion
Further Reading & Resources
Jacques Lacan - September 2018
Jacques Lacan
Simone de Beauvoir - November 2018
Simone de Beauvoir
2018 Readings
Jan 11 - Friedrich Nietzsche - On Truth and Lie in an Ultramoral Sense
Jan 25 - Henri Bergson - Memory and Mind
Feb 8 - Sigmund Freud - Creative Writers and Daydreaming
Feb 22 - Ferdinand de Saussure - Course in General Linguistics
Mar 8 - Martin Heidegger: What is Metaphysics?
Mar 22 - Gaston Bachelard - Water and Dreams
Apr 12 - Paul Valery - Poetry and Abstract Thought
Apr 26 - Jean Paul Sartre - The Imaginary: The Psychology of Imagination
May 10 - Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
May 24 - Jacques Lacan - The Mirror Stage
Jun 14 - Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
Jun 28 - Hannah Arendt - The Human Condition
Jul 12 - Carl G. Jung - Approaching the Unconscious
Jul 26 - Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Eye and Mind
Aug 9 - Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
Aug 23 - Jacques Derrida - Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences
Sep 13 - Michel Foucault - The Subject and Power
Sep 27 - Julia Kristeva - From One Identity to an Other
Oct 11 - Paul Ricoeur - The Metaphorical Process of Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling
Oct 25 - Jean Francois Lyotard - What is Postmodernism?
Nov 8 - Jean Baudrillard - The Precession of Simulacra
Nov 29 - Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari - Rhizome
Dec 13 - Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - The Echo of the Subject
Dec 27 - Noam Chomsky - Language and Nature
Foundational Thinkers & Texts
Plato
Aristotle
Longinus
Niccolo Machiavelli
Marx & Engels
Soren Kierkegaard
G. W. F. Hegel
Joseph Campbell
Ludwig Witgenstein
Simone de Beauvoir (103:06)
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