Programme
Our courses run as seminars: Short lectures introduce the material, followed by close reading and sustained student discussion. They are not strictly divided into beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels, but are designed to welcome participants from all backgrounds.
Explanations are build from the ground up - no prior knowledge is assumed, and key ideas are unpacked carefully to ensure the material is fully accessible, while still offering new perspectives and interpretive questions for those with more experience.
We read canonical texts alongside lesser-known figures, tracing lines of influence that are often overlooked. To support this process, written summaries are provided throughout the course.
Time, History, Memory
1 December 2026 - 2 March 2027
Tuesdays
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, and Paul Ricoeur explore the past as a site of temporal invention. By rethinking history, art, and memory, they create ways of inhabiting the present as a field of interruption, coexistence, and narrative reconstruction.
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
16 March 2027 - 2 June 2027
Tuesdays
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Spinoza invented new philosophical coordinates that were taken up by Friedrich Nietzsche, Martial Gueroult, Antonio Negri and Gilles Deleuze. His philosophy offers a model of thinking that remains a vital alternative to the mainstream tradition.
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.