Online Seminar Series

On Reading Six Women Artists/Thinkers –
Personal Truths, Metaphors and the Public Sphere

Sunday, April 16, 2023

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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).

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April 16 Reading:

Hannah Arendt – Lying and Politics (essay selection: Truth and Politics)

ISBN 978-1-59853-731-4

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Series Schedule:

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 PDT (please note later than usual weekend time)

Tutors: 

Karl Haigler and Rae Nelson

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Location: 

Online. Register to receive the link.