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Two Biblical Aftershows Now Available for Inspiration

April 21, 2015 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Enjoyed episodes #112 (Ricoeur) and #113 (Jesus’s Parables)? Listen to the Aftershows!

Phi-Fi Conversation on Woolf’s Novel “To The Lighthouse”

April 14, 2015 by Nathan Hanks 2 Comments

“In a moment he would ask her, ‘Are we going to the Lighthouse?’ And she would have to say, ‘No: not tomorrow, your father says not.’ Happily, Mildred came in to fetch them, and the bustle distracted them. But he kept looking back over his shoulder as Mildred carried him out, and she was certain that he was thinking, we are not going to the Lighthouse tomorrow; and she thought, he will remember that all his life.”

April’s Not School Groups: Jesus, Murakami, Auslander, Heidegger

April 4, 2015 by Daniel David 1 Comment

Not School

April’s Not School Groups are talking about the historical Jesus, and reading Murakami, Auslander and Heidegger. Join the flock or propose a new group.

Listen to the Gadamer Aftershow

March 22, 2015 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Citizens can now download what would be the discussion section if our ep. 111 was the lecture, which it was not. Lots of discussion of art!

Not School Report: Grotowski’s ‘Akropolis’

March 18, 2015 by Daniel David Leave a Comment

The Philosophy and Theatre Group’s discussion of Grotowski’s Akropolis is now available to PEL Citizens.

Bonus Discussion: Jaspers’s “Truth & Symbol”

March 11, 2015 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

A Not School discussion about Karl Jaspers’s 1947 work about his existential ideal and how that relates to religion and ontology.

Philosophical Fiction Reading: Woolf’s To The Lighthouse

March 7, 2015 by Nathan Hanks Leave a Comment

We are going to read To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf for our conversation this March in Philosophical Fiction. A few regulars and I chose a book from our List of Suggestions to read before our conversation where we’ll go over the plot, discuss the characters, recall apt passages, and try to get at what everything is all about anyway. To The Lighthouse will be my first Virginia Woolf Continue Reading …

Not School Offerings In March

March 4, 2015 by Daniel David Leave a Comment

This month features groups on Zizek, Gadamer, Charles Taylor, Paolo Friere, Virginia Woolf and Philip Auslander. Join up with them or propose your own group.

Reading Fiction in February, ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ by Flannery O’Connor

February 24, 2015 by Nathan Hanks 1 Comment

Our Philosophical Fiction story for February is ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ by Flannery O’Connor, where a grandmother and her family go on vacation yet encounter an outlaw known as The Misfit.

Continue the Discussion and Have Fun Doing It!

February 12, 2015 by Stephen West 1 Comment

Join Stephen West and Dylan Casey this Sunday at 1pm Eastern time via Google Hangout to discuss the Whitehead episode. You don’t have to read any Whitehead! Sign up to participate, or watch the Facebook group at the time for the hyperlink to watch it live.

Not School Happenings In February

February 5, 2015 by Daniel David Leave a Comment

Our Not School groups are reading Karl Jaspers, Charles Taylor, Paolo Friere, and possibly Woolf or Nabokov. Don’t forget the upcoming Aftershow discussion of Whitehead too. Come join up!

Not School Discussion: Finding Philosophy in Grotowski

January 15, 2015 by Daniel David 2 Comments

Listen to the Not School Philosophy and Theater Group’s discussion on the work of Jerzy Grotowski.

Fiction Conversation on ‘The Map and the Territory’

January 4, 2015 by Nathan Hanks Leave a Comment

Discussing Michel Houellebecq’s novel about being an artist in the modern age, along with thoughts from Zizek and others.

Not School in January

January 3, 2015 by Daniel David 1 Comment

January’s Not School groups are reading Zizek and Diderot. Come join them, or start your own group.

Not School Groups In December

December 4, 2014 by Daniel David Leave a Comment

December’s Not School Groups are reading Houellebecq and Grotowski. Maybe some Rorty, Proudhon, and Heidegger too. Come check them out, or start your own group!

Conversation on the Novel ‘Distant Star’ by Roberto Bolaño

December 1, 2014 by Nathan Hanks Leave a Comment

The latest recording from the Not School Philosophical Fiction Group is up for your enjoyment.

Not School In November

November 5, 2014 by Daniel David Leave a Comment

November’s Not School groups are reading from Heidegger, Oakeshott, Houellebecq and Grotowski. Or propose a new one!

The Theater Group Discusses Victor Turner’s “From Ritual to Theatre”

November 4, 2014 by Daniel David Leave a Comment

Listen to the Philosophy and Theater Group’s discussion on the work of Victor Turner.

October Not School Happenings

October 7, 2014 by Daniel David Leave a Comment

October’s Not School groups are reading Roberto Bolano, Soren Kierkegaard, Victor Turner and Martin Heidegger, and we have proposals for a few more. Join up and come check them out!

B.K.S. Iyengar: A Model for Living Philosophically

September 18, 2014 by Evan Roane 1 Comment

Evan Roane, new leader of the Not School Intro Readings group, profiles the recently deceased philosopher who brought together theory and practice.

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