The Nietzsche Circle Presents:
An Evening with Daniel Blue, to celebrate his new book published by Cambridge University Press:
The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche, The Quest for Identity 1844-1869
Introduction by David Kilpatrick
RSVP with Luke Trusso at trussol@nietzschecircle.com by September 30, 2016.
An Evening With Jared Russel to celebrate the publication of his book: Nietzsche and the Clinic
With introduction by Yunus Tuncel
Upcoming events:
3/23 – Elvira Basevich, “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Racialism and Two Liberal Conceptions of Plurality” @ the Dweck Center // 7:00 P.M.
4/27 – Christia Mercer on women in the history of philosophy @ the Dweck Center // 7:00 P.M.
5/18 – Chris Lebron on the philosophy of Black Lives Matter @ the Dweck Center // 7:00 P.M.
Lawrence J. Hatab
Krista Johansson
David Kilpatrick
Yunus Tuncel
This is an RSVP only event and participants will be informed about the location prior to the event. Please RSVP by April 1st either with Luke Trusso at trussol@nietzschecircle.com or Yunus Tuncel at tuncely@nietzschecircle.com.
5/18 – Chris Lebron on the philosophy of Black Lives Matter @ the Dweck Center // 7:00 P.M.
Nietzsche Circle Presents: An Evening with Music and Philosophy
Speakers:
- Michael Teinmann
- Yunus Tuncel
Pianist:
- Aysegul Durakoglu
RSVP required!
Refreshments will be served. If you like to attend, Please RSVP by sending email to Luke Trusso at trussol@nietzschecircle.com
Is Transhumanism a Dangerous Idea?
Book Launch Discussion
Moderated by Gregory Morgan
Speakers:
Babette Babich
Francesca Ferrando
Michael Steinmann
Yunus Tuncel
There is only a perspectival seeing, only a perspectival ‘knowing’; and the more affects we allow to speak about a matter, the more eyes, different eyes, we know how to bring to bear on one and the same matter, that much more complete will our ‘concept’ of this matter, our ‘objectivity’ be.
Thus wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, and we at the Gotham Philosophical Society agree. We believe that to make sense of something, we need to see it from as many sides as possible.
That is why we are launching a new discussion series with the aim of contributing to the pursuit of New York’s objectivity. We will be taking on all manner of ideas, issues, and topics of significance to New Yorkers, and approaching them from legal, artistic, and philosophical perspectives. We believe that a philosophical understanding cut-off from our legal reality is irrelevant, and that laws uninspired by our poetic imagination are without soul.
With Dr. Joseph S. Biehl (Gotham Philosophical Society), Jane LeCroy, Shahabuddeen Ally
So please join us as we kick-off this series with a look at the concept of truth, the concept that is central to human discourse. What is truth? How can we know it? And what can it mean to say, as so many have, that we are now living in a ‘post-truth’ world? We’ll ask these questions and more, Monday, December 4, 2017, at Le Chélie NYC at 8pm.
Beyond the Linear-Cyclical Distinction: The Nature of Maya Philosophy of Time
Since the early 20th century, anthropologists have distinguished two ways cultures can think about time. On the linear conception of time, everything happens only once, never to be repeated. On the cyclic conception of time, the world is made of a recurring cycle of events. This distinction has come to be a mainstay of categorizing Maya conceptions of time, even in much contemporary scholarship. I argue that the linear-cyclical distinction is problematic for understanding ancient Maya conceptions of time, that it is a problematic distinction in general, and that a better way of understanding the ancient Maya conception of time is in terms of the ritual connection between “deep time” and “human time”. Ancient Maya rituals concerning time are most accurately thought of in terms of the ritual expression and visualization of continual creation, rather than in terms of the cyclical renewal of time. Finally, I argue that focus on the human time-deep time distinction can help us better understand broader features of Maya metaphysics in areas such as the continuity of persons and objects through time.
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In his new book, Philosophy of the Ancient Maya: Lords of Time, Alexus McLeod (Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut) presents a pioneering study of the philosophical thought of the Maya. On Tuesday, February 13th at 7:30 PM, Dr. McLeod joins BPL Presents and Brooklyn Public Philosophers to discuss the Maya philosophy of time.
Discussion with Seth Binsted, Michael Steinmann, and Yunus Tuncel. If you like to attend, Please RSVP by sending email to Luke Trusso at trussol@nietzschecircle.com