Foucault Society Reading Group tomorrow

The Foucault Society, NYC

Winter 2010 Reading Group

Foucault(s) Beyond Foucault: Essays, Interviews, Lectures (1976-84)

Please join us as our Fall 2009 Reading Group continues into Winter 2010. The next meeting of the reading group will be on Friday, January 8, 7:00-9:30pm, at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5414.

We will discuss the following pieces:

Michel Foucault (1993 [1980]). “About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self” in Political Theory, 21(2): 198-227.

Michel Foucault (2005 [1981-2]). The Hermeneutics of the Subject, Lectures I & II. New York: Picador.

For a limited time, readings are available to reading group participants on GoogleDocs. For access instructions, please send an e-mail to: foucaultsociety2009@gmail.com.

This reading group is open to the public. New participants are welcome; you do not need to have attended every meeting to join us. Please come prepared with a question or section of the text to discuss with the group. Suggested Donation: $5/meeting. No one will be turned away for lack of ability to pay.

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Reading Group Schedule: Winter 2010

**All meetings will be held at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5414.

Date: Friday, January 8, 2010

Readings:

--Michel Foucault. 1993 [1980]. “About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self” in Political Theory, 21(2): 198-227.

--Michel Foucault. 2005 [1981-2]. The Hermeneutics of the Subject. New York: Picador. (Lectures I & II)

Date: Friday, January 29, 2010

Readings:

--Michel Foucault. 2006 [1983]. “On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of a Work in Progress” in Essential Works, Vol. 1. New York: The New Press.

--Michel Foucault. 2006 [1983]. “The Ethics of the Concern for the Self as a Practice of Freedom” in Essential Works, Vol. 1. New York: The New Press.

Date: Friday, February 19, 2010

Readings:

--Michel Foucault: 2006. “What is Enlightenment?” in Essential Works, Vol. 1. New York: The New Press.

--Michel Foucault: 1986 [1983]. “Kant on Enlightenment and Revolution” in Economy and Society, 15(1): 88-96.

For more information or to register, please contact Reading Group Organizer, Aaron Weeks (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center) at foucaultsociety2009@gmail.com.

For directions to CUNY Graduate Center, go to: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/about_gc/directions.htm

About the Foucault Society:

The Foucault Society is an independent, non-profit educational organization offering a variety of forums dedicated to critical study of the ideas of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) within a contemporary context. The Foucault Society is a 501 (c) (3) recognized public charity. As such donations are tax deductible under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code.

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