Existentialists

 Dear Other:


The Book Club is currently in Hiatus.
Please email suggestion for readings.

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AUTHOR: TBA
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LOCATION: TBA

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Discourse on Method



First Modern Philosopher

  Dear Other:

The November 2010 reading will be the following:
(Click Blog title and picture for links.)

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AUTHOR:
Rene Descartes

TITLE OF WORK:
Discourse on Method and Related Writings

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TIME and DATE:
November 20, 2010 at 2PM, Saturday.

LOCATION:
Philosophy Book Club
Queens Library at Forest Hills
108-19 71 Avenue
Forest Hills, NY 11375

TRANSPORTATION:
MTA (E, F, V, R) or LIRR to Forest Hills.
5 minutes walk to library.

! ! ! FREE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ! ! !

Participants with the book given priority.

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COMMENT:
While reading this book,
please make note of an Existential idea
for comparative reasoning in group discussion.

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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL:

- - REFERENCE 1:
Bruns, Gerald L. “A Literary Guide to Discourse on Method” Boundary 2 8.2 (1980), 141-164

- - REFERENCE 2: (Listen)
http://www.philosophytalk.org/pastShows/Descartes.htm

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ANNOUNCE PDF
Print and Post  in your local community bulletin board.

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The Myth of Sisyphus

Dear Other:

The September 2010 reading will be the following:
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AUTHOR:
Albert Camus

TITLE OF WORKS:
"The Myth of Sisyphus"

The following chapters:
- - An Absurd Reasoning
- - The Myth of Sisyphus

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TIME and DATE:
September 25, 2010 at 2PM, Saturday.

LOCATION:
Philosophy Book Club
Queens Library @ Forest Hills
108-19 71 Avenue
Forest Hills, NY 11375

TRANSPORTATION:
MTA (E, F, V, R) or LIRR to Forest Hills.
5 minutes walk to library.

! ! ! FREE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ! ! !

Participants with the book given priority.

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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL:

- REFERENCE 1:
Barnett, R. Suicide and Atheism: Camus and The Myth of Sisyphus. Atheism and Evolution webpage. Retrieved 8/26/2010 from
http://web.archive.org/web/20071012140207/http://www.geocities.com/a_and_e_uk/Sisyphus.htm

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The Stranger @ Forest Hills

Dear Other:

The August 2010 reading will be the following:
(click on title of blog to go to biography.)
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AUTHOR:
Albert Camus

TITLE OF WORKS:
"The Stranger"

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TIME and DATE:
August 21, 2010 at 2PM, Saturday.

LOCATION:
Philosophy Book Club
Queens Library @ Forest Hills
108-19 71 Avenue
Forest Hills, NY 11375

TRANSPORTATION:
MTA (E, F, V, R) or LIRR to Forest Hills.
5 minutes walk to library.

! ! ! FREE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ! ! !

Participants with the book given priority.
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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL:

- REFERENCE 1:
Online @ Google Books

- REFERENCE 2:
Camus: The Stranger (A Student Guide: Landmarks of World Literature)
by Patrick McCarthy

- REFERENCE 3:
Critical Analysis

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Ethics of Ambiguity

Dear Other:

The July 2010 reading will be the following:

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AUTHOR:
Simone De Beauvoir

TITLE OF WORKS:
[The following is an excerpt]
- The Ethics of Ambiguity
- - Section III: The Positive Aspects of Ambiguity,
- - - Part 5. Ambiguity.

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The reading will come from the book:
"Basic Writings of Existentialism"
[ISBN-13: 978-0375759895]
- by Gordon Marino
- - Pages 413-436
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TIME and DATE:
July 24, 2010 at 2PM, Saturday.

LOCATION:
Philosophy Book Club
Queens Library @ Forest Hills
108-19 71 Avenue
Forest Hills, NY 11375

TRANSPORTATION:
MTA (E, F, V, R) or LIRR to Forest Hills.
5 minutes walk to library.

! ! ! FREE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ! ! !
Participants with the book given priority.
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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL:
- REFERENCE 1:
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/existentialism/debeauvoir/ambiguity.html
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Existentialism/Being & Nothingness

Dear Other:

The June 2010 reading will be the following:
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AUTHOR:
Jean-Paul Sartre

TITLE OF WORKS:
[The following are excerpts]

1) Existentialism and Human Emotions
- -Existentialism.

2) Being and Nothingness:
- -Self-Negation
* - *- 1. Bad Faith
* - *- 2. The Unconscious
* - *- 3. Play-Acting.
- -The Encounter with the Other
* - *- 1. The Look
* - *- 2. Shame.
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The reading will come from the book:
"Basic Writings of Existentialism"
[ISBN-13: 978-0375759895]
- by Gordon Marino
--Pages 337-409
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TIME and DATE:
June 26, 2010 at 2PM, Saturday.


LOCATION:
Philosophy Book Club
Queens Library @ Forest Hills
108-19 71 Avenue
Forest Hills, NY 11375

TRANSPORTATION:
MTA (E, F, V, R) or LIRR to Forest Hills.
5 minutes walk to library.

! ! ! FREE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ! ! !

Participants with the book given priority.
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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL:
REFERENCE 1:
"For Sartre there is no unalterable structure of essences or values given prior to man's own existence. That existence has meaning, finally, only as the liberty to say No, and by saying No to create a world. If we remove God from the picture, the liberty which reveals itself in the Cartesian doubt is total and absolute; but thereby also the more anguished, and this anguish is the irreducible destiny and dignity of man. Here Cartesianism has become more heroic and more deamoniacal."
Quote Source: Barrett, B. (1958). IRRATIONAL MAN. New York, NY: Doubleday.

REFERENCE 2:
Sartre, J.P. (1946). Existentialism Is a Humanism. (P. Mairet, Trans).
Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre, ed. Walter Kaufman,
Meridian Publishing Company, 1989
(First published by World Publishing Company, 1956).
Retrieved June 6, 2010, from
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm
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Dasein's Possibility of Being-A-Whole, and Being-Towards-Death

Dear Other:



The May 2010 reading will be the following:
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AUTHOR:
Martin Heidegger
 TITLE OF WORK:
(Excerpt from)
Being And Time:
-Division Two: Dasein and Temporality
- -I. Dasein's Possibility of Being-A-Whole,
and Being-Towards-Death
- - -46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53
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The reading will come from the book:
"Basic Writings of Existentialism"
[ISBN-13: 978-0375759895]
- by Gordon Marino
- -The Possible Being-A-Whole of
Da-Sein and Being-Toward-Death
- - -Pages 299-336
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TIME and DATE:
May 22, 2010 at 2PM, Saturday.


LOCATION:
Queens Library @ Forest Hills
108-19 71 Avenue
Forest Hills, NY 11375
[Meeting held in the Story Room on 2nd Floor.]

TRANSPORTATION:
MTA (E, F, V, R) or LIRR to Forest Hills.
5 minutes walk to library.

! ! !  FREE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ! ! !


Participants with the book given priority.
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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL:
REFERENCE 1:
Inwood, M. (2000). Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction. United States: Oxford University Press Inc., New York.

REFERENCE 2: [Course Listening]
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978475


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Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr

Dear Other:


The April 2010 reading will be the following:
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AUTHOR:
Miguel De Unamuno Y Jugo

TITLE OF WORK:
Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr
(a novella - "nivola")
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The reading will come from the book:
"Basic Writings of Existentialism"
[ISBN-13: 978-0375759895]
- by Gordon Marino
--Pages 255-294
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TIME and DATE:
April 10, 2010 at 2PM, Saturday.

LOCATION:
Philosophy Book Club
Queens Library @ Forest Hills
108-19 71 Avenue
Forest Hills, NY 11375
[Meeting held in the Story Room on 2nd Floor]


Participants who bring the book will be given priority in the discussion.
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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL:
REFERENCE 1:
Longhurst C. The Problem of Truth in 'San Manuel Bueno, Martir'. Modern Language Review [serial online]. July 1981;76(3):581-597. Available from: Academic Search Premier, Ipswich, MA. Accessed March 21, 2010.
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REFERENCE 2:
Muray, L. A. (n.d.). Ultimate Reality and Meaning and Lived Experience in Unamuno. Curry College. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from http://www.ctr4process.org/publications/Biblio/Papers/Leslie%20Muray,%20Ultimate%20Reality%20and%20Meaning%20and%20Lived%20Experience.html
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REFERENCE 3:
Trigo-Gilbert, M. L. (10/27/1998) Discovering Miguel de Unamuno. Go Inside Magazine - Boles Books Publication. Retrieved from http://goinside.com/98/10/martyr.html
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REFERENCE 4:
Mora, J.  F. (2002). The Language Of Religious Experience. (P. Cohn, Trans) International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 1 (Orignial work published Spring 1970): 22-33. Retrieved from The Essayist March 14, 2010, from http://www.ferratermora.org/essa_philo-religion.html

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Notes From the Underground & The Brothers Karamazov

Dear Other:

The March 2010 reading will be the following:
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AUTHOR:
Fyodor Dostoevsky

TITLE OF WORKS:
(The following are excerpts)

a) Notes From the Underground:
-Part 1: Underground
--- Page 193
b) The Brothers Karamazov:
-The Grand Inquisitor
--- Page 231
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The reading will come from the book:
"Basic Writings of Existentialism"
[ISBN-13: 978-0375759895]
- by Gordon Marino
--Pages 190-254
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TIME & DATE:
March 13, 2010 at 2PM.

LOCATION:
Queens Library @ Forest Hills
108-19 71 Avenue
Forest Hills, NY 11375.

Participants who bring the book will be given priority in the discussion.
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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL:
Lukacs, Georg. (1973). Marxism and Human Liberation: Essays on History, Culture and Revolution. (R. Wellek, Trans.). Dell Publishing Company. (Original work published 1949). Retrieved March 01, 2010, from http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1949/dostoyevsky.htm

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On the Genealogy of Morals

Dear Other:

The February reading will be the following.
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TITLE OF WORK: On the Genealogy of Morals

AUTHOR: Friedrich Nietzsche

DETAIL:

a) First Essay: “Good and Evil,” “Good and Bad”

- Page 111

b) Second Essay: “Guilt,” “Bad Conscience,” and the Like

- Page 145
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The reading will come from the text

"Basic Writings of Existentialism"

by Gordon Marino

[ISBN: 978-0-375-75989-5]

Pages 107-187.
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TIME & DATE:

February 20, 2010 at 2PM

in the Queens Library at Forest Hills.

Participants who bring the book will be given priority in the discussion.-

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ANALYSIS LINK BELOW:

Geddes, Dan. (n.d.). Toward an Evaluation of Nietzsche’s Genealogy. The Satirist. Retrieved February 9, 2010, from

http://www.thesatirist.com/books/GenealogyofMorals.html

SELF

A New Yorker on Uncertainty

Dear Other:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeCHiUe1et0&NR=1

A Genius and Doubt!

Self