Meeting Wednesday 8 May 2013, 5pm

The reading for our next meeting on Wednesday 8 May 2013 is an excerpt (pp. 5-8 and 26-33) from Hannah Arendt's 'Totalitarian Imperialism: Reflections on the Hungarian Revolution', very kindly chosen by Kei. The entire article is available here.

As ever, please do get in touch if you have any questions or if you are unable to access the reading (christos.hadjiyiannis@ell.ox.ac.uk)

Next meeting: 8 May 2013

For our next meeting on May 8th, we will read a piece by Hannah Arendt. More details to follow.

In the meantime, happy vacation to all!

Next Meeting: Wednesday 13 March 2013, 5pm, Wolfson

Our next meeting will take place at 5pm on Wednesday 13th March in Committee Room, Wolfson.

The reading will be an excerpt from Simone Weil's The Need for Roots (pp. 9-19; from 'Order' on p. 9 to the end of 'Honour' on p. 19)

As ever, if you have suggestions for future readings get in touch (christos.hadjiyiannis@ell.ox.ac.uk)

Date change: Next meeting 6 February, 5pm

Please note the date change for our next meeting: Wednesday *6 February* (not 30 January as previously advertised). Same time and place: 5pm, Committee Room, Wolfson

Next meeting: 6 February 2013, 5pm

A happy new year to all!

Our next meeting will take place on Wednesday 6 February at 5pm in Wolfson (room tbc).

We will be discussing chapter 9, 'Aestheticism, Perfectionism, Utopianism', (from vol 1) of Karl Popper's Open Society and its Enemies, which you can access here (pp.160-72). It is a relatively short text but contains various integral ideas that (will hopefully) lend themselves to fruitful discussion.

As ever, do get in touch if you have any questions/suggestions etc.

Looking forward to seeing many of you on the 6th!

Alan Ryan on Berlin (via Marcus)

Marcus has very kindly alerted us to this timely article by Alan Ryan on Berlin: "Isaiah Berlin: The History of Ideas as Psychodrama", in European Journal of Political Theory (December 2012)

Isaiah Berlin on Desert Island Discs

(No Wagner, clearly - but Mussorgsky is in there...)