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Why did Plato Write? Philosophy, Dialogue, and Dialectic
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school
Examine the relationship between dialogue, writing and philosophy through a close study of influential classical texts. Explore how competing traditions shaped the legacy of Socratic thought while analyzing themes of language, education, friendship and representation. Engage in thoughtful discussion of ideas that continue to influence philosophical inquiry today.
Oct 22nd
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Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (In-Person)
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 45 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY
Examine a landmark work of twentieth-century literature through themes of censorship, morality, faith and artistic freedom. Explore how fantasy, satire and allegory challenge political power while raising enduring questions about truth, love and conscience. Gain deeper historical and cultural insight through thoughtful discussion and close reading.
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Kant’s Critical Aesthetics
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 75 Broad St, New York, NY
Art was anything but peripheral to Kant’s philosophical project. In judging a thing to be beautiful, Kant maintained, we bridge “the great gulf” of nature and human freedom, and prepare ourselves to “love something, even nature, without interest”—that is, exercise moral judgment. Immensely influential in its time, the so-called “third Critique” inspired and gave energy to both German Idealism, which attempted to provide a rational...
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Foundations of Modern Philosophy
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 247 West 37th St, New York, NY
Long before the development of modern academic and scientific disciplines, the early modern scientific revolution was exemplified by “natural philosophers”—polymaths like Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes who saw no clear distinction between philosophical, scientific, social, and other forms of inquiry. The scientific revolution, born partly from the insights they provided, was also a philosophical revolution,...
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What is Analytic Philosophy?
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 247 West 37th St, New York, NY
In the early 20th century, a new generation of thinkers came to believe that European philosophy had reached a dead end. Reacting to what they held was the obfuscatory language and non-sensical direction of post-Kantian philosophy, Cambridge philosophers Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore set out to revolutionize philosophy through a fundamental rethinking of its methods and purposes. Their work, and its outgrowths in the philosophies of mathematics,...
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Kant: Metaphysics and Morality
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 30 Irving Pl, New York, NY
Kant’s “Critical philosophy,” which begins with the appearance of the Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, is an attempt to understand the total scope and limits of human reason, science, and morality. Moreover, he argues that the purpose of philosophy is to answer the fundamental questions that emerge from such an attempt: “What can we know? What should we do? What can we hope for?” In other words: Can we really know what reality...
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Lived Experience: An Introduction to Phenomenology
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 75 Broad St, New York, NY
What is phenomenology? Drawing on lived, first-person experience, phenomenology is the attempt to analyze and understand the very structures of human experience and consciousness. What are the elements of perception, and why do different people, different subjects, perceive things differently? What’s universal about consciousness? In what ways do individual identity, circumstance, history, language, and memory condition lived experience—and thus...
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On the Heights of Despair: an Introduction to E.M. Cioran
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 200 East 38th Street, New York, NY
Delve into the mind of philosopher Emil Cioran, as he explores themes of despair, doubt, and skepticism in a world without God. Join this thought-provoking course and discover Cioran's aphoristic style and its connection to his unconventional philosophy. Explore his life, influences, and the meaning of existence in this engaging exploration of a philosopher of unremitting despair.
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Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 30 Irving Pl, New York, NY
Delve into Kant's groundbreaking "Critique of Pure Reason," a seminal work that revolutionized western philosophy by critiquing reason itself. This course offers close readings of key sections, exploring fundamental questions about knowledge, reality, and human reason. Examine Kant's concepts like the synthetic a priori, transcendental idealism, and the limits and nature of rationality.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Evil
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: an Introduction to Moral Philosophy Why should we be good? What makes an action moral—and how can we know? If an act is moral here and now, is it necessarily moral there and then? Is goodness in some way connected to happiness? And, what constitutes a moral judgment—is it an exercise of reason, or merely an expression of feeling? In this class, we’ll investigate the nature and scope of morality as it’s been...
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Roland Barthes: Beyond Interpretation
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 558 St. Johns Place, Brooklyn, NY
This course—an introduction to the thought of the French philosopher, literary theorist, linguist, and semiotician—asks how Barthes, who began his intellectual life as a committed disenchanter, evolved from architect of structuralist demystification to theorist of the scintillant, a field of investigation that encompassed questions of affect including pleasure, pain, bliss, love, and mourning. The rubric of the scintillating spurred Barthes’s...
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French Existentialism: Beauvoir and Sartre
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
For Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, the fundamental philosophical problem of the modern age was answering Friedrich Nietzsche’s dictum: god was dead, and so was, as a consequence, traditional western conceptions of morality, justice, and truth itself. In the cafes of occupied and post-war Paris, Sartre, Beauvoir, and their cohort of fellow existentialists attempted to meet Nietzsche’s challenge: to reimagine the basis of morality...
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The Task of the Critic: an Introduction to Rosalind Krauss
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Uncover the transformative power of poststructuralist, feminist, and psychoanalytic methods in art criticism through an exploration of the writings and ideas of Rosalind Krauss, the influential founder of October journal. Analyze representative artworks alongside her essays, as you delve into the ways in which art objects and movements challenge categorization and reshape aesthetic experience. Discover how Krauss's unique theoretical vocabulary redefines the role of the critic in art historical narratives.
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Aristotle and the Left: Materialism, Dialectics, and Utopia (In-Person)
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Explore how Aristotle's philosophy has been interpreted to support both conservative hierarchies and radical leftist thought. This course examines the dynamic interpretations of Aristotelian theory through the lens of thinkers like Avicenna, Averroes, and Karl Marx, uncovering its potential for critique and change in political structures.
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Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Explore the profound and intricate philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel through a close reading of Phenomenology of Spirit. Trace the evolution of Reason from sensory perception to absolute knowing, while uncovering Hegel’s revolutionary dialectical method and its impact on epistemology, metaphysics, morality, and political thought.
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Deleuze and Guattari: Anti-Oedipus
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Examine a groundbreaking philosophical work that rethinks the relationship between desire, capitalism and society. Explore influential ideas that challenge traditional psychoanalysis and Marxism while shaping contemporary social and political theory. Gain deeper insight into concepts that continue to inspire debate and critical analysis today.
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Continuum Movement® Moving Medicine
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Movement as a mindful exercise is gaining more and more attention as an important part of creating and maintaining health. It is being researched in the psychology field for treatment of trauma and is associated with improvements in psychological well-being, including reducing stress, anxiety, depression and mood disturbance, as well as increased self-esteem. Continuum Movement offers an experience of the human body as an elegant composite of interpenetrating...
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Somatic Techniques to Improve Your Inner Life
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Discover how empowering self-relating’s somatic techniques can improve your inner life. Caryn has developed ten self-relating principles to resolve unconscious inner conflicts, inhibitions, shame, and trauma. This approach harnesses neuroscience, somatic awareness, heart chakra presence, internal/external movement, and embodied techniques. Through a combination of experiential and embodied exercises, pair explorations, and group work, we tune...
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Living a Luminous Life
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
We are all aware of the impact of sunlight on plant growth and development, but few of us know that a plant actually “sees” where light is emanating from and positions itself to be in optimal alignment with light. This phenomenon is not just occurring in the plant kingdom—humans are also fundamentally directed by light, the same light that spiritual traditions refer to as God and physicists describe as the energy underlying creation. This animating...
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$35
Living Meditation: Deepening & Integrating Practices
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Living Meditation will guide you into the rich meditative practices and teachings found at the most profound levels of the great spiritual traditions, where the ultimate state of non-dual awareness is all that exists. In this one day retreat, you will not only deepen your meditation and integrate that practice into everyday life, but you will begin an ongoing process of shedding old, conditioned patterns and uplifting your work life, your...
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$145
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Living a Luminous Life
Loved the class! Very inspiring!
