7p to 8:30p ◣
Agora, from the Greek – an Assembly of the People, used not only for debating, trials, and other public purposes, but also as a marketplace – a shop? A place where people gather to talk about ideas together.
A philosophy reading group, gathered for the sake of puzzling through the specific peculiarities, insights, and pleasures of the text, and for the sake of talking together about what the world is and who we are.
Monthly, or so. Essays, short texts, ideally readable in a long quiet afternoon. Texts drawn from no particular tradition or time period.
Facilitated by KATIE KELLEY (PhD, Philosophy, NSSR), self-described lapsed academic and longtime friend, sometimes employee of the the shop.
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For October we will read Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," available HERE. Details on text forthcoming.
Before that we read a selection of Blaise Pascal's Pensées (available HERE).
Before that we read Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" (available HERE).
Before that we read Stanley Cavell's "Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy" (available HERE).
Before that we read Nietzsche's On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life (procure HERE).
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We can't wait to see you! Email information@archestrat.us with questions.