We meet Thursday, April 21 at 4pm in Hagerty 145.
Our last meeting this term is a transition from the spring theme of Dialectics of Consciousness to the fall theme, Dialectics of Capitalism. The following optional readings may be referred to in discussion, but nobody is expected to have done these readings.
- Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit — Unhappy Consciousness (206-230)
- Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (On the ground of the distinction of all objects in general into phenomena and noumena) and Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (Autonomy of the Will as the Supreme Principle of Morality)
- Thich Nhat Hanh’s Understanding Our Mind — Chapter 8 (Field of Perception)
- Debord’s Society of the Spectacle — Chapter 1 (Separation Perfected)
- Marx’s Capital — section 1 (Commodities)