group research topics in previous years

2008-09

winter 09

Heidegger, Being and Time

spring 09

Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception

summer 09

Heidegger, Basic Writings

2009-10

fall 09

Husserl, The Idea of Phenomenology

Husserl, Cartesian Meditations

winter 10

Sartre, Being and Nothingness

spring 10

Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge

summer 10

Brentano, Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint

2010-11

fall 10

Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy (Book I)

winter 11

Heidegger, Basic Problems of Phenomenology

spring 11

Merleau-Ponty, The Structure of Behavior

2011-12

fall 11

[on break]

winter 12

Husserl, The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology

spring 12

Deleuze, Difference and Repetition

2012-13

fall 12

Heidegger, History of the Concept of Time

winter 13

Husserl, Ideas second book (Studies in the Phenomenology of Constitution)

spring 13

Badiou, Being and Event

2013-14

fall 13

Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception

winter 14

Husserl, The Idea of Phenomenology

Husserl, Basic Problems of Phenomenology

Husserl, Philosophy as a Rigorous Science

spring 14

Derrida, Of Grammatology

2014-15

fall 14

Husserl, The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology

winter 15

Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy

spring 15

Foucault, Discipline and Punish (joint meetings with Feminism Reading Group)

2015-16

fall 15

Stein, On the Problem of Empathy

Husserl, Ideas II

recent work on empathy

winter 16

Heidegger, Being and Time

spring 16

De Beauvoir, The Second Sex (joint meetings with Feminism Reading Group)

2016-17

fall 16

Schutz, The Phenomenology of the Social World

winter 17

Arendt, The Human Condition

spring 17

Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man

2017-18

fall 17

[on break]

winter 18

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

spring 18

Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

2018-19

fall 18

Deleuze, Logic of Sense

winter 19

Bergson, Essay on the immediate data of consciousness ('Time and Free will')

spring 19

Malabou, Self and Emotional Life

2019-20

fall 19

Husserl, Cartesian Meditations

winter 20

Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus

spring 20

Levinas, Totality and Infinity

2020-21

fall 20

Stein, Individual and Community; Investigation concerning the State

winter 21

Foucault, History of Sexuality, volumes 1-3

spring 21

Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology, On Being Included

2021-22

fall 21

Kevin Quashie, Black Aliveness

and

Gilles Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy

winter 22

Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

spring 22

Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (cont)

2022-23

fall 22

Scheler, Formalism in Ethics

winter 23

Arendt, The Human Condition

spring 23

Husserl, Cartesian Meditations

2023-24
fall 2023
Merleau-Ponty, World of Perception and other writings
winter 2024
Charles Taylor, various,  and Paul Ricoeur, various
spring 2024
Heidegger, Being and Time

2024-25
fall 2024
Gadamer, Truth and Method
winter 2025
Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment
spring 2025
Weil, The Need for Roots