Programme
We run evening seminar-style courses. Each session begins with a short lecture that introduces the central ideas, followed by close reading of texts and sustained group discussion.
The courses are open to all participants, with no formal division into beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels. Each topic is approached from first principles, so no prior background is required.
Key concepts are explained carefully and step by step. At the same time, the courses are designed to remain intellectually challenging for those already familiar with the material, offering new readings, questions, and interpretive angles.
We read canonical texts alongside lesser-known figures, tracing lines of influence that are often neglected in standard accounts. Written summaries are provided throughout the course to support reading and discussion between sessions.
Time, History, Memory
1 December 2026 - 2 March 2027
Tuesdays
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze explore the past as a site of temporal invention. By rethinking history, film, and memory, they open new ways of developing a critical historical consciousness capable of intervening in the present.
Nietzsche's Simulacra
15 June - 17 August 2027
Tuesdays
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Nietzsche rethinks truth, identity and interpretation through masks, forces and competing perspectives. Read through Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Klossowski, his philosophy opens a way of understanding how images, values and realities are produced.
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
16 March - 1 June 2027
Tuesdays
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Spinoza invented new philosophical coordinates that were taken up by Friedrich Nietzsche, Martial Gueroult and Gilles Deleuze. His philosophy offers a model of thinking that remains a vital alternative to the mainstream tradition.
The Future
7 September - 23 November 2027
Tuesdays
6:00pm - 8:00pm
The future appears as a problem of possibility, responsibility and change. By questioning progress, prediction and historical necessity, we explore how thought can remain open to uncertainty, novelty and forms of life that do not yet exist.
Past Courses
Experimentations with the History of Philosophy: Problems, Rhythms, and Encounters
This course offers a wide-angle introduction to how 20th-century French thinkers reimagined the history of philosophy - not as a static record of past ideas, but as a space for conceptual invention and experimentation. What is often treated as a rigid and remote tradition becomes, in their hands, a resource for creative and critical transformation. Taking a broad perspective, it invites participants to explore key shifts in Continental thought through a series of large brushstrokes.