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This meetup consists of different groups of people reading certain material to different degrees of depth and intensity. Books we've read in the past include Descartes' 'Meditations', Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding', Kant's '1st Critique', Kant's 'Prolegomena', Heidegger's 'Being and Time', Husserl's 'Logical Investigations', Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit', Marx's 'Capital', and many others. From time to time new groups are formed and remain open for awhile to newcomers. If yo …
"To philosophize, we may now say, is an extraordinary questioning into the extraordinary." -- Martin Heidegger, 1935 * * * "The critique of scientism within phenomenology does not seek to refute or negate the results of scientific research in the name of some mystical apprehension of the unity of man and nature, or whatever. Rather, it simply insists that science does not provide the primary or most significant access to a sense of ourselves and the world. Anti-scientism does not at all entail a …
"The great directors of the cinema may be compared, in our view, not merely to painters, architects and musicians, but also with thinkers. They think with movement-images and time-images instead of concepts. ... One cannot object by pointing to the vast proportion of rubbish in cinematographic production -- it is no worse than anywhere else ... The history of the cinema is a long martyrology. Nevertheless, the cinema still forms part art and part thought, in the irreplaceable, autonomous forms w …
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