Lent 2012 –special session–
15 February 2012
Guest: Monique David-Ménard (Université Paris-Diderot, Paris 7)
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Place: Seminar Room 2 (Keynes Building), King’s College, Cambridge
Reading: Monique David-Ménard, ‘Pour une archéologie du transfert’ in Éloge des hasards dans la vie sexuelle (2011)
A very rough English translation of an excerpt of this chapter is available here. The chapter in French is available here. Please do not circulate either text beyond the assistants to the seminar.
Previous sessions
2008
26 February: Raymond Geuss (Guest) Readings: George Büchner, ‘Danton’s Death’ (1835)
Lent and Easter 2010
13 Jan: Sigmund Freud, ‘Observations on Transference-Love’ (PEP-Web)
20 Jan: Ludwig Feuerbach, ‘Chapter IV‘ in The Essence of Christianity + Marx, Theses On Feuerbach
27 Jan: Jacques Lacan, ‘IV: Love and the Signifier’ in Seminar XX (in french – click here)
3 Feb: Bernard Stiegler, ’The Disaffected Individual‘ + Immanuel Kant, ’Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View’
10 Feb: Bernard Stiegler (Guest) Reading: Bernard Stiegler, ‘To Love, to Love Me, to Love Us’ in Acting Out (Stanford, 2009)
17 Feb: Pablo Neruda; Walking Around, Oda con un lamento, Explico algunas cosas, Nuevo canto de amor a Stalingrado + Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1971
24 Feb: Simone de Beauvoir; ‘The Antinomies of Action’ from Part III, in The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947)
3 March: Raymond Geuss (Guest) Readings: Paul Celan, ‘Conversation in theMountains’; Georg Büchner, ‘Lenz’ (German); Franz Kafka, ‘The Excursion into the Mountains’ (English) (German).
11 March: Aileen Kelly (Guest) Reading: F.T. Marinetti, “The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism”; Kasimir Malevich, “Suprematism”; Tristan Tzara, “Lecture on Dada”; Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution (excerpts).
17 March: Leo Tolstoy, ‘Master and Man’ (1895)
24 March: Raja Shehaden, ‘Illusory Portals’ in Palestinian Walks + four poems by Taha Muhammad Ali
31 March: Peter Kropotkin, The Paris Commune (1880)
7 April: Emma Goldman, ‘Anarchism: What it Really Stands for’ in Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)
14 April: Alain Badiou, Chapters 7 & 8 in Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (1997)
21 April: Paulo Freire, Chapter 1 in Pedagogy of the Oppressed; Jacques Rancière, Chapter 1: ‘An Intellectual Adventure’ in The Ignorant Schoolmaster
28 April: Martin Crowley (Guest) Readings: Maurice Blanchot, ‘Refusal’ +’Friendship’ in Friendship [L'Amitié (1971)]
Lent and Easter 2011
26 January: Jacques Lacan, ‘Kant avec Sade’ (1963)
2 February: Excerpts from Immanuel Kant,’Lectures on Pedagogy’ (1803), in Anthropology, History, and Education.
9 February: Chapters 4, ‘The Ethics of the Voice’, and 5 ‘The Politics of the Voice’ in Mladen Dolar, A Voice and Nothing More (2006).
16 February, Mikhail Bakhtin, ‘Art and Answerability‘; Intro + Circles 1 and 2 in The Coming Insurrection
23 February, Adorno and Horkheimer, ‘Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality’ in Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)
2 March, Jane Bennett, ‘The Force of Things: Steps toward an Ecology of Matter’ (Log in to JSTOR)
9 March, Jean Luc Nancy, ‘Love and the Community’ (approx 100 min) Lecture delivered at the European Graduate School in 2001
16 March, Leo Strauss, ‘The Setting’ in On Plato’s Symposium
23 March, Jacques Lacan, Seminar XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, Chapters I, II.
30 March, Jacques Lacan, Seminar XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis,Chapters III, IV and V.
6 April, Jacques Lacan, Seminar XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, Chapters VI and VII.
13 April, Jacques Lacan, Seminar XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, Chapters VIII, IX, and X.
20 April, Jacques Lacan, Seminar XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, Chapters XI, XII and XIII.
27 April, Joan Copjec, ‘May ’68, The Emotional Month’ in Slavoj Zizek (ed) Lacan: The Silent Partners, ed. by Slavoj Zizek
4 May, Jacques-Alain Miller ‘On Shame’ and Éric Laurent ‘Symptom and Discourse’ in Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar-XVII ed. by Justin Clemens, Russell Grigg (2006)
11 May, Plato, Phaedrus (first half)
18 May, Plato, Phaedrus (second half)
25 May, Jacques Derrida, ’Plato’s Pharmacy’ (1968) [Part I]
8 June, Jacques Derrida, ‘Plato’s Pharmacy’ (1968) [Part II]
15 June, D.W. Winnicott, ‘Cure’ (1970) in Home Is Where We Start From ; ‘The Location of Cultural Experience’ (1967) and ‘The Place where we Live’ in Playing and Reality.
Summer 2011
13 July, Plato, The Symposium (first half).
20 July, Plato, The Symposium (second half).
27 July, Luce Irigaray, ‘Sorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato’s Symposium, Diotima’s Speech’ ; Andrea Nye, ‘The Hidden Host: Irigaray and Diotima at Plato’s Symposium’
3 Aug, Jean-Pierre Vernant, ’One… Two… Three: Eros’ in Before Sexuality; The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World
10 Aug, Michel Foucault. The History of Sexuality. Vol 2. Part Five (True Love) p. 229-246.
2 Sept, Emmanuel Lévinas, ‘Section IV: Beyond the Face’ (Chapters A, B, and C) in Totality and Infinity (1961)
