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, 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.