What we’re about
This group is for anyone interested in exploring literature, philosophy, and cinema through occasional film viewings and reading discussions that will be centered around classic and contemporary works of (primarily) Western Philosophy, Fiction, and Cinema. We will not only look at the traditional cast of existential characters (Sartre, de Beauvoir, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Camus, Kafka), but will also be very open to other work within the European philosophical tradition that is derivative of, influential to, or critical towards "existential" philosophy. Special consideration will also be given to works within the "phenomenological" tradition. Join us in this exciting intellectual endeavor! Get ready for fun, riveting, and thoughtful discussions about society, values, faith, spirituality, truth, experience, subjectivity, and existence (of course).
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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His ShadowAxelrad Beer Garden, Houston, TX
For March, we will begin discussing The Wanderer and His Shadow, which comprises the last section of Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human--a book which began as a shorter work when originally published in 1878. A second part was published in 1879, and a final version (which included part three: The Wanderer and His Shadow) was published in 1880.
This month, we will focus on the first half of The Wanderer and His Shadow (all the way up to section 169--pg. 57 of the PDF provided below).
We will be at Axelrad Beer Garden, sitting outside on the upstairs deck.
See below for a link to the reading followed by a brief description of the work:
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE READING
"Human, All Too Human marked for Nietzsche a new 'positivism' and skepticism with which he challenged his previous metaphysical and psychological assumptions. Nearly all the themes of his later work are displayed here with characteristic perceptiveness and honesty--not to say suspicion and irony--in language of great brio. It remains one of the fundamental works for an understanding of his thought.
A philosophical coming of age for Friedrich Nietzsche, in it he rejects the romanticism of his early work, greatly influenced by Wagner and Schopenhauer, and looks to enlightened reason and science. The 'Free Spirit' enters, untrammeled by all accepted conventions, a precursor of his Zarathustra."
- Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His ShadowAxelrad Beer Garden, Houston, TX
For April, we will begin discussing The Wanderer and His Shadow, which comprises the last section of Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human--a book which began as a shorter work when originally published in 1878. A second part was published in 1879, and a final version (which included part three: The Wanderer and His Shadow) was published in 1880.
This month, we will focus (primarily) on the second half of The Wanderer and His Shadow (starting at section 170--pg. 58 of the PDF provided below).
We will be at Axelrad Beer Garden, sitting outside on the upstairs deck.
See below for a link to the reading followed by a brief description of the work:
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE READING
"Human, All Too Human marked for Nietzsche a new 'positivism' and skepticism with which he challenged his previous metaphysical and psychological assumptions. Nearly all the themes of his later work are displayed here with characteristic perceptiveness and honesty--not to say suspicion and irony--in language of great brio. It remains one of the fundamental works for an understanding of his thought.
A philosophical coming of age for Friedrich Nietzsche, in it he rejects the romanticism of his early work, greatly influenced by Wagner and Schopenhauer, and looks to enlightened reason and science. The 'Free Spirit' enters, untrammeled by all accepted conventions, a precursor of his Zarathustra."
