If you’d like to join the reading group on Robin McKenna’s Non-Ideal Epistemology please email Heather and Nadine.

The group will be Tuesday mornings 11-12 in FAB1.37. The group will start in week 2 and will run in weeks 2-5 and 7-10. Each week we will read one chapter (happily the book has eight chapters).

Everyone welcome, no specialist knowledge required.

Contact: Heather & Nadine

Everyone is welcome! We follow a pre-read format, so please message sameer.bajaj@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

W10 - Inventing Modern Natural Theology

Herbert, Lord Cherbury - De Veritate, Descartes - selections from Meditations, Locke - Selections from Essay and A Letter Concerning Toleration.

Please get in touch with Benedikt (Vaclav.Loula@warwick.ac.uk) to register your interest, or rock up at the designated time if you feel like joining fellow-minded seekers of wisdom to break (intellectual) bread with.

Navid Kermani’s novel Große Liebe (2014, Love Writ Large) charts the development of a young teenager’s infatuation with an A-level student in the early 1980s in Germany. The love story is refracted through the adult narrator’s reflections and through readings from Sufi mysticism and Nizami’s 12^th ct. epic poem Lailï and Majnûn. This creates a narrative framework in which (Iranian and Muslim) cultural sources and (West German) cultural memory subtly comment on one another, allowing Kermani to ironically undermine both contemporary masculinity and his narrator’s former self as lover while simultaneously reflecting on the cultural and religious traditions of his own background and their relations to a Western tradition of love. The paper examines Kermani’s ironic narrative construction in the context of his construction of a paradoxical cultural identity.