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at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research - Brooklyn 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, New York 11201
Friedrich Nietzsche is among the most notorious and controversial thinkers in the western intellectual tradition. He aimed to philosophize “with a hammer,” to demolish the philosophical tradition founded by Socrates and Plato and slaughter its most sacred cows. Central to that tradition is the value placed on truth, reason, objectivity, and a...
Friedrich Nietzsche is among the most notorious and...
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at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research - Brooklyn 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, New York 11201
Imagining Utopia: Politics, Planning, and the (Im)Possible Dystopias abound in the contemporary landscape—in literature, on screen, in our diagnoses of the present. From the zombie apocalypse to planetary catastrophe to nightmarish visions of gender disciplining, dystopia is today a particularly salient category, a popular outlet for imaginations...
Imagining Utopia: Politics, Planning, and the (Im)Possible...
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at 92nd Street Y - Upper East Side 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, New York 10128
Get ready for Passover with this three-part program diving into the Haggadah. The Haggadah as we have it today is a complex document that has undergone generations of textual and artistic innovation. We will examine Haggadot from the early medieval period through today. We will see how the document has historically developed both textually and artistically...
Get ready for Passover with this three-part program...
Read moreat Think Olio - Bedford - Stuyvesant 1063 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11216
Our friends at Valentine's have just opened up as a cozy cafe in the mornings and Think Olio will be taking residence every Friday morning with an art class, open to anybody who has the urge to create a little bit more. Taking a page from the Artist's Way handbook, we will gather as a community to take advantage of our early morning creativity...
Our friends at Valentine's have just opened up as...
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“The postmodern,” writes Marxist literary and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson, “is the force field in which very different kinds of cultural impulses . . . must make their way.” Adapted from a New Left Review essay of the same name, Jameson’s Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is an ambitious account of how the postmodern...
“The postmodern,” writes Marxist literary and...
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at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research - Gramercy 30 Irving Pl, New York, New York 10003
Complete Course Title: A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: an Introduction to Marx In the mid-nineteenth century, a young Karl Marx wrote, in the form of a published open letter to Arnold Ruge: “But if the designing of the future and the proclamation of ready-made solutions for all time is not our affair, then we realize all the more clearly...
Complete Course Title: A Ruthless Criticism of Everything...
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at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research - Morningside Heights 3009 Broadway, New York, New York 10027
The world is not usually imagined for the benefit of women. What can feminist science fiction tell us about these oppressive arrangements and how the world might be otherwise? What makes a work of science fiction feminist? From utopia to dystopia, satire to space opera, in what ways does science fiction hold up a mirror to difficult realties?...
The world is not usually imagined for the benefit...
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at 92nd Street Y - Online Online Classroom, New York, New York 00000
Memoirists write their personal stories in a way that appeals to the emotions and experiences of their readers. Jewish memoirists Esther Amini, Angela Himsel, and Ilan Stavans will sit down with author Marcia Butler to talk about how they use the memoir format to express their identity and history.
Memoirists write their personal stories in a way...
Read moreat 92nd Street Y - Upper East Side 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, New York 10128
In writing The Idiot,a novel dear to his own heart, Dostoevsky set about to depict a truly good man. As he asks whether goodness can survive in the world and/or a novel, Dostoevsky also addresses traditional assumptions about marriage, family life, the “woman question,” Russian identity, health, sickness, love and death. To celebrate the 150th...
In writing The Idiot,a novel dear to his own heart,...
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at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research - Brooklyn 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, New York 11201
What does it mean to be human in the world today? Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958) is a provocative treatise on what it means to live on earth and share the world in common. Her study, originally intended to be titled Amor Mundi (Love of the World), investigates the central activities of human life—labor, work, action—and their corresponding...
What does it mean to be human in the world today?...
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at 92nd Street Y - Upper East Side 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, New York 10128
Join charismatic actor and teacher Leo Schaff as he breathes life into Shakespeare’s words, acting out portions of the play and offering illuminating insights into the Bard’s language, plot lines, historical context and eternal relevance, all with a generous sense of humor. The Tempest - January 8 The magic hand of Prospero guides us through...
Join charismatic actor and teacher Leo Schaff as he...
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at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research - Financial District 75 Broad St, New York, New York 10004
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...
Art was anything but peripheral to Kant’s philosophical...
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at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research - Midtown 247 West 37th St 5th Fl, New York, New York 10018
How do numbers relate to the world? What insights can we derive from data? How do we separate signal from noise? This course is an introduction to statistical thinking and its applications to data analysis at a level accessible to a broad audience with no prior statistical background. We’ll learn and make intuitive the fundamental methods...
How do numbers relate to the world? What insights...
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at Think Olio - Williamsburg 28 Frost St, Brooklyn, New York 11211
Food, Power and Control: How our obsession with food is a sign of our growing sense of powerlessness Our lives can sometimes become tasteless, lacking in meaning. We search for novelty and innovation and have forgotten about depth and context. Our choices in food are just one of the many ways that we express our yearning for something with...
Food, Power and Control: How our obsession with food...
Read moreat Think Olio - Crown Heights 658 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11238
Three Seminars on Nabokov’s Lolita First Seminar: If Lolita excites me, should I feel bad? We may as well admit it: Nabokov’s Lolita is designed to arouse our desire. But how exactly does it work? How does Nabokov encourage readers to take pleasure in Humbert Humbert’s pedophilic experiences even if they don’t share his perversity?...
Three Seminars on Nabokov’s Lolita First Seminar:...
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