Dear All,

We're delighted to announce the WMA Reading Group schedule for this term - Eve Poirier will be leading the sessions. The details are below:

Please note: in the run-up to this year's MindGrad conference, we will also be using this reading group to have some pre-reading sessions on the work of the keynote speakers. These will be valuable sessions for PG students to attend to familiarise themselves with the keynote speakers' work ahead of the conference. More details on this will be announced in due course.

WMA reading group: Montaigne on MEEP (Mind, Epistemology, Ethics & Political Philosophy)

Where/When: Cowling Room (S2.77), Tuesdays 16:00-17:00 in even weeks, starting in week 2.

A message from Eve: This term in the WMA reading group we will look at some Montaignian takes on topics in Mind, Epistemology, Ethics and Politics. Suitable for Montaigne beginners and experts, everyone is welcome. I will be reading from Donald Frame’s translation, of which there are hard copies available in the library. Get in touch with me (eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk) if you need help finding the readings or want a digital copy.

We will meet in the Cowling Room (S2.77) at 16:00 on Tuesday in even weeks, starting on the 16^th. I promise it will be relatively light-hearted and fun, so please don’t be afraid to come along and discover the joys of Montaigne 😊 

Schedule:

Week 2 – Intro to Montaigne: Judgement, Personality, Humankind (and Chess!)

‘To the Reader’ (p. 2 in the Frame translation)

‘Of Democritus and Heraclitus’ I. 50. (pp. 266-268)

Week 4 – Knowing Facts, Learning Virtues

‘Of Pedantry’ I. 25. (pp. 118-129)

Week 6 – Justice and Dirty Hands

‘Of the Useful and the Honourable’ III. 1 (pp. 726 at least up to p. 736)

Week 8 – TBC

Week 10 – TBC

A new reading group will be running this term on Karl Marx. Our plan is to work through some of Marx's early writings in term 2 and, if this goes well, hopefully continue into term 3 reading parts of Capital and some of Marx's other later work. The planned reading for term 2 is below. If you're interested, please get in touch and we'll keep you updated on the specific excerpts of these works we're going to look at.

Marx Reading Group

Time: 3-4.45 p.m. Every second Thursday, beginning week 2

Location: FAB 2.25

Content:

Week 2: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right - we'll read the introduction, available here

Week 4: On the Jewish Question

Week 6: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

Week 8: Theses on Feuerbach, The German Ideology

Week 10: The Communist Manifesto

This reading group is organised by Gráinne, Chris, Sara, Max, Emily and Luke. Please get in touch with Gráinne to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much! I hope to see many of you there : )

Kind regards,

Gráinne

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger’s essays, starting with “What is Metaphysics?” today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include ‘On the Essence of Ground’ and the ‘Letter on Humanism’. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger’s essays, starting with “What is Metaphysics?” today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include ‘On the Essence of Ground’ and the ‘Letter on Humanism’. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Dear All,

We're delighted to announce the WMA Reading Group schedule for this term - Eve Poirier will be leading the sessions. The details are below:

Please note: in the run-up to this year's MindGrad conference, we will also be using this reading group to have some pre-reading sessions on the work of the keynote speakers. These will be valuable sessions for PG students to attend to familiarise themselves with the keynote speakers' work ahead of the conference. More details on this will be announced in due course.

WMA reading group: Montaigne on MEEP (Mind, Epistemology, Ethics & Political Philosophy)

Where/When: Cowling Room (S2.77), Tuesdays 16:00-17:00 in even weeks, starting in week 2.

A message from Eve: This term in the WMA reading group we will look at some Montaignian takes on topics in Mind, Epistemology, Ethics and Politics. Suitable for Montaigne beginners and experts, everyone is welcome. I will be reading from Donald Frame’s translation, of which there are hard copies available in the library. Get in touch with me (eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk) if you need help finding the readings or want a digital copy.

We will meet in the Cowling Room (S2.77) at 16:00 on Tuesday in even weeks, starting on the 16^th. I promise it will be relatively light-hearted and fun, so please don’t be afraid to come along and discover the joys of Montaigne 😊 

Schedule:

Week 2 – Intro to Montaigne: Judgement, Personality, Humankind (and Chess!)

‘To the Reader’ (p. 2 in the Frame translation)

‘Of Democritus and Heraclitus’ I. 50. (pp. 266-268)

Week 4 – Knowing Facts, Learning Virtues

‘Of Pedantry’ I. 25. (pp. 118-129)

Week 6 – Justice and Dirty Hands

‘Of the Useful and the Honourable’ III. 1 (pp. 726 at least up to p. 736)

Week 8 – TBC

Week 10 – TBC

A new reading group will be running this term on Karl Marx. Our plan is to work through some of Marx's early writings in term 2 and, if this goes well, hopefully continue into term 3 reading parts of Capital and some of Marx's other later work. The planned reading for term 2 is below. If you're interested, please get in touch and we'll keep you updated on the specific excerpts of these works we're going to look at.

Marx Reading Group

Time: 3-4.45 p.m. Every second Thursday, beginning week 2

Location: FAB 2.25

Content:

Week 2: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right - we'll read the introduction, available here

Week 4: On the Jewish Question

Week 6: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

Week 8: Theses on Feuerbach, The German Ideology

Week 10: The Communist Manifesto

This reading group is organised by Gráinne, Chris, Sara, Max, Emily and Luke. Please get in touch with Gráinne to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much! I hope to see many of you there : )

Kind regards,

Gráinne

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger’s essays, starting with “What is Metaphysics?” today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include ‘On the Essence of Ground’ and the ‘Letter on Humanism’. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger’s essays, starting with “What is Metaphysics?” today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include ‘On the Essence of Ground’ and the ‘Letter on Humanism’. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Dear All,

We're delighted to announce the WMA Reading Group schedule for this term - Eve Poirier will be leading the sessions. The details are below:

Please note: in the run-up to this year's MindGrad conference, we will also be using this reading group to have some pre-reading sessions on the work of the keynote speakers. These will be valuable sessions for PG students to attend to familiarise themselves with the keynote speakers' work ahead of the conference. More details on this will be announced in due course.

WMA reading group: Montaigne on MEEP (Mind, Epistemology, Ethics & Political Philosophy)

Where/When: Cowling Room (S2.77), Tuesdays 16:00-17:00 in even weeks, starting in week 2.

A message from Eve: This term in the WMA reading group we will look at some Montaignian takes on topics in Mind, Epistemology, Ethics and Politics. Suitable for Montaigne beginners and experts, everyone is welcome. I will be reading from Donald Frame’s translation, of which there are hard copies available in the library. Get in touch with me (eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk) if you need help finding the readings or want a digital copy.

We will meet in the Cowling Room (S2.77) at 16:00 on Tuesday in even weeks, starting on the 16^th. I promise it will be relatively light-hearted and fun, so please don’t be afraid to come along and discover the joys of Montaigne 😊 

Schedule:

Week 2 – Intro to Montaigne: Judgement, Personality, Humankind (and Chess!)

‘To the Reader’ (p. 2 in the Frame translation)

‘Of Democritus and Heraclitus’ I. 50. (pp. 266-268)

Week 4 – Knowing Facts, Learning Virtues

‘Of Pedantry’ I. 25. (pp. 118-129)

Week 6 – Justice and Dirty Hands

‘Of the Useful and the Honourable’ III. 1 (pp. 726 at least up to p. 736)

Week 8 – TBC

Week 10 – TBC

A new reading group will be running this term on Karl Marx. Our plan is to work through some of Marx's early writings in term 2 and, if this goes well, hopefully continue into term 3 reading parts of Capital and some of Marx's other later work. The planned reading for term 2 is below. If you're interested, please get in touch and we'll keep you updated on the specific excerpts of these works we're going to look at.

Marx Reading Group

Time: 3-4.45 p.m. Every second Thursday, beginning week 2

Location: FAB 2.25

Content:

Week 2: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right - we'll read the introduction, available here

Week 4: On the Jewish Question

Week 6: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

Week 8: Theses on Feuerbach, The German Ideology

Week 10: The Communist Manifesto

This reading group is organised by Gráinne, Chris, Sara, Max, Emily and Luke. Please get in touch with Gráinne to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much! I hope to see many of you there : )

Kind regards,

Gráinne

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger’s essays, starting with “What is Metaphysics?” today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include ‘On the Essence of Ground’ and the ‘Letter on Humanism’. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger’s essays, starting with “What is Metaphysics?” today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include ‘On the Essence of Ground’ and the ‘Letter on Humanism’. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Dear All,

We're delighted to announce the WMA Reading Group schedule for this term - Eve Poirier will be leading the sessions. The details are below:

Please note: in the run-up to this year's MindGrad conference, we will also be using this reading group to have some pre-reading sessions on the work of the keynote speakers. These will be valuable sessions for PG students to attend to familiarise themselves with the keynote speakers' work ahead of the conference. More details on this will be announced in due course.

WMA reading group: Montaigne on MEEP (Mind, Epistemology, Ethics & Political Philosophy)

Where/When: Cowling Room (S2.77), Tuesdays 16:00-17:00 in even weeks, starting in week 2.

A message from Eve: This term in the WMA reading group we will look at some Montaignian takes on topics in Mind, Epistemology, Ethics and Politics. Suitable for Montaigne beginners and experts, everyone is welcome. I will be reading from Donald Frame’s translation, of which there are hard copies available in the library. Get in touch with me (eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk) if you need help finding the readings or want a digital copy.

We will meet in the Cowling Room (S2.77) at 16:00 on Tuesday in even weeks, starting on the 16^th. I promise it will be relatively light-hearted and fun, so please don’t be afraid to come along and discover the joys of Montaigne 😊 

Schedule:

Week 2 – Intro to Montaigne: Judgement, Personality, Humankind (and Chess!)

‘To the Reader’ (p. 2 in the Frame translation)

‘Of Democritus and Heraclitus’ I. 50. (pp. 266-268)

Week 4 – Knowing Facts, Learning Virtues

‘Of Pedantry’ I. 25. (pp. 118-129)

Week 6 – Justice and Dirty Hands

‘Of the Useful and the Honourable’ III. 1 (pp. 726 at least up to p. 736)

Week 8 – TBC

Week 10 – TBC

A new reading group will be running this term on Karl Marx. Our plan is to work through some of Marx's early writings in term 2 and, if this goes well, hopefully continue into term 3 reading parts of Capital and some of Marx's other later work. The planned reading for term 2 is below. If you're interested, please get in touch and we'll keep you updated on the specific excerpts of these works we're going to look at.

Marx Reading Group

Time: 3-4.45 p.m. Every second Thursday, beginning week 2

Location: FAB 2.25

Content:

Week 2: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right - we'll read the introduction, available here

Week 4: On the Jewish Question

Week 6: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

Week 8: Theses on Feuerbach, The German Ideology

Week 10: The Communist Manifesto

This reading group is organised by Gráinne, Chris, Sara, Max, Emily and Luke. Please get in touch with Gráinne to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much! I hope to see many of you there : )

Kind regards,

Gráinne

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying