Past Sessions

Our past sessions have explored a diverse range of thinkers and subjects, each sparking insightful discussions. If you like what you see, please join us as we continue our investigations:

Aratus' Phenomena

Hesiod's Works and Days

Virgil’s Eclogues

Konrad Wallenrod, by Adam Mickiewicz

Theocritus’ Idylls

Moses Mendelssohn's Phaedon

Plato's Phaedo

Plato's Meno

Plato's Apology

“Laws of Idolatry and the Customs of Gentiles” by Moses Maimonide

Book of Ecclesiastes

Livy's History of Rome, Book 1

Byron’s Sardanapalus

Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plato's Timaeus

Goethe's Torquato Tasso

Sonnets by Étienne de La Boétie

"Discourse on Voluntary Servitude"  by Étienne de La Boétie

"A Chapter on Dreams" by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Triumphs, by Petrarch

Discourses on Livy, by Machiavelli

The Timaeus, by Plato

Against Nature, by J.K. Huysmans

The Divan of Hafiz

Satires by Horace

"A Woman's Version of the Faust Legend" by George Sand

Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Odes by Giuseppe Parini

Empodocles on Etna by Matthew Arnold

"Life of Diogenes" by Diogenes Laertius

Metamorphoses (Book 1) by Ovid

Characters by Theophrastus

"Ars Poetica" by Horace

The Banquet by Dante

The Divine Comedy by Dante

Moral Fables by Giacomo Leopardi

Life of Dante by Boccaccio

"A Parallel Between Dante and Petrarch" by Ugo Foscolo

"On the Love of Petrarch" by Ugo Foscolo

"On the Minor Works of Dante" by Giuseppe Mazzini

"Hero as poet. Dante: Shakespeare" by Thomas Carlyle

"Bartleby the Scrivener" by Melville

"Dante" by T.S. Eliot

"The Shades: a Phantasy" by Vladimir Korolenko

"On Sepulchres" by William Godwin

The Adventures of Telemachus, Son of Ulysses by Francois Fenelon

"Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin

Dispatches from Europe to the New York Tribune by Margaret Fuller

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Garibaldians in Sicily by Alexander Dumas

"The Immortal" by Jorges Luis Borges

Faust, Part II by Goethe

Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer

"Power of the Mind to Master Its Morbid Feelings Through Sheer Resolution" by Emmanuel Kant

Moral Fables by Giacomo Leopardi

Faust, Part I by Goethe

Essays by Bacon

A Song of Italy by Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Crito by Plato

The Story of Philosophy by Durant

Countess of Rudolstadt by George Sand

The Garden of Cyrus by Thomas Browne

On Germany by Germaine de Stael

Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk by Thomas Browne

"The Sphinx" by Edgar Allan Poe

The Power of Darkness by Leo Tolstoy

Consuelo by George Sand

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

Life of a Good-For-Nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

"On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life" by Nietzsche

Heaven and Hell by Emmanuel Swedenborg

The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous

The Book of Job by Unknown

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice Vol. 2 by William Godwin

The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice Vol. 1 by William Godwin

"Mogens" by Jens Peter Jacobsen

The Adventures of Caleb Williams by William Godwin

"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Germinal by Emile Zola

Complete Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

What Is To Be Done? by Leo Tolstoy

Essays by Peter Kropotkin

The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde

"The Artist of the Beautiful" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Metamorphoses by Ovid

"Protagoras" by Plato

Paradise Lost by John Milton

"Of Cannibals" by Michel de Montaigne

Henry IV by Shakespeare

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

"The Metaphysics of Fine Art" by Schopenhauer

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

"Discourses on the arts and sciences" by Jean Jaques Rousseau

Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Poetics by Aristotle

"The Consciousness of Self" by William James

What Is To Be Done? by Nikolay Chernyshevsky

On Nietzsche by Lou Andreas-Salome

"What Is Enlightenment" by Emmanuel Kant

"Life of Caesar" by Plutarch

Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

Conversations with Goethe by Johan Peter Eckerman

Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The Will to Believe" by William James

"That to study philosophy is to learn to die" by Michel de Montaigne

The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer

The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche