Online Seminar Series
On Reading Six Women Artists/Thinkers –
Personal Truths, Metaphors and the Public Sphere
Sunday, June 25, 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).
June 25 Reading:
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
Location:
Online. Register to receive the link.