The University of Sheffield
The School of Education

Philosophy of Education Reading Group

Meetings are held on a monthly basis. All welcome.

Dates and readings:

Reading Date Venue
Banash D. Activist Desire, Cultural Criticism, and the Situationist International

Sloterdijk, P. Critique of Cynical Reason. Ch 1 and Ch 2. (copies in the staff room)

27 August 2013, 4pm 7.02

J. Kellstadt, The Necessity and Impossibility of Anti-Activism
Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life, Chapter 25

24 July 2013, 4pm 7.02
Students of the University of Strasbourg and the Situationist International (1966) On the Poverty of Student Life. Debord, G. (1967) Society of the Spectacle (Chapters 1 & 2). 20 June 2013, 4pm 7.02
Ryan, M. 1983 Deconstruction and social theory: the case of liberalism in Mark Krupnick (Ed) Displacement: Derrida and After. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 154-168. 16 April 2013, 4pm 8.08
Derrida, J. (1997) The Villanova Roundtable: a conversation with Jacques Derrida in J.D. Caputo (Ed) Deconstruction in a Nutshell, New York: Fordham University Press, pp 1-28. 11 December 2012, 4pm 8.08

Caputo, J. (1997) (Ed.) Deconstruction in a Nutshell: a conversation with Jacques Derrida. New York: Fordham University Press. Ch 5, pp.125-155

24 July 2012, 4pm 8.08
Žižek, S. (2000) Melancholy and the Act. Critical Inquiry, 26(4), 657-681.
Žižek, S. (2004) Notes on a Debate "From Within the People". Criticism, 46(4), 661-666.
29 May 2012, 4pm 8.08

Smith, D.W. (2007) Deleuze and the question of desire: toward an immanent theory of ethics. Parrhesia (2), 66-78.

Smith, D.W. (2004) The inverse side of the structure: Zizek on Deleuze on Lacan. Criticism, 46 (4), 635-650.

24 April 2012, 4.15pm 8.08
Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1984) Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. London : Athlone, pp.22-38. 20 March 2012, 4pm 8.08
Neill, C. (2005) The Locus of Judgement in Lacan's Ethics. Journal of Lacanian Studies 3 (1) 85-100 and

Lacan, J. (1949) The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function. Lecture delivered July 17 Zurich 16th Congress of Psychoanalysis 75-81

21 February 2012, 4pm 8.08
Buber, M. (1947) Between Man and Man. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Chapter 3. Copies are available in room 6.03. 24 January 2012, 4pm 7.02

Dewey, J. (1916). Democracy and Education. Chapter 7.

This is available online here.

28 November 2011,
4pm

7.02

Foucault, M. (1982). The Subject and Power. Critical Inquiry, 8(4), 777-795.

Nietzsche, F. (1887). On the Genealogy of Morals.
Second Essay.

A translation of which is available here.

24 October 2011,
4pm
7.02

Nietzsche, F. (1887). On the Genealogy of Morals.
Second Essay.

A translation of which is available here

Foucault, M. (1991). Nietzsche, Genealogy, History. In P. Rabinow (Ed.) The Foucault Reader. London: Penguin Books

5 September 2011,
4pm
7.02
Heidegger, M. (1929). What is Metaphysics? In Basic Writings. London: Routledge. 18 July 2011,
4pm
7.02
Derrida, J. (1982). The Ends of Man. In Margins of Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 7 June 2011,
4pm
7.02