Online Seminar Series
On Reading Six Women Artists/Thinkers –
Personal Truths, Metaphors and the Public Sphere
Sunday, March 19, 2023
In this series we will explore diverse writings of women ranging over four centuries, texts that are both timely and timeless. Starting with Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women (1794), we will move through arguments from the public sphere—including Hannah Arendt’s Truth and Politics (1954) and Eva Brann’s Is Equality an Absolute Good? (2022)—to those dealing with the more personal truths found in literature, culminating in Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Thinkers and artists alike, including Martha Nussbaum and Iris Murdoch, will help guide our conversations to those aspects of dialogue that underlie civil discourse with explorations of Rational Emotions (Nussbaum) and The Sovereignty of Good (Murdoch).
March 19 Reading:
Iris Murdoch – The Sovereignty of Good (selections: On God and Good and The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts)
ISBN 978-0-415-25399-4
Series Schedule:
March 19 – Iris Murdoch – The Sovereignty of Good (selections: On God and Good and The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts)
ISBN 978-0-415-25399-4
April 16 – Hannah Arendt – Lying and Politics (selections)
ISBN 978-1-59853-731-4
May 21 – Martha Nussbaum – Poetic Justice (selections)
ISBN 978-0807041093
June 25 – Jane Austen – Persuasion
ISBN 9798741674918 (Amazon on-demand print book)
Schedule:
2:00-4:00PM PST
Tutors:
Karl Haigler and Rae Nelson
Location:
Online. Register to receive the link.