Reading Group

The Reading Group constitutes the intellectual heart of the Center and predates the Center by many years. Here are some of the major texts the group has studied:

Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory.
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.
Alain Badiou, Being and Event.
Mikhail Bakhtin, Art and Answerability.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex.
Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory.
Hans Blumenberg,The Legitimacy of the Modern Age.
Stanley Cavell, The Claims of Reason.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe.
Michel De Certeau, The Mystic Fable, Vol. 1.
Gilles Deleuze, Cinema I; Difference and Repetition.
Eugen Fink, Play as Symbol of the World.
Michel Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject.
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams.
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method.
Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation.
G.W.F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit.
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time; Contriburtions to Philosophy (Of the Event).
Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences.
Jean-François Lyotard, The Differend.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception; The Visible and the Invisible.
Plato, The Laws.
Jacques Rancière, The Names of History.
Eve K. Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations.
Sylvia Wynter, Black Metamorphosis.
Slavoj Zizek, The Puppet and the Dwarf.