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In the process of investigating and treating the enigmatic disorder known as “hysteria,” Sigmund Freud established the discipline of psychoanalysis—and by so doing, profoundly altered Western subjectivity. By insisting that the bodily symptoms of hysterics represented unconscious conflict, Freud established a new way of thinking about human experience,...
In the process of investigating and treating the enigmatic...
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Kant’s publication of the Critique of Pure Reason was a seismic event in the history of western philosophy, whose effects continue to be felt today. Enacting a “Copernican Revolution” in philosophy, Kant subjected reason itself to critique—attempting to answer the question: how do we know things at all? What structures and categories does...
Kant’s publication of the Critique of Pure Reason...
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Simone de Beauvoir: Existentialism, Phenomenology, Feminism Simone de Beauvoir—activist, author, social critic, philosopher—is considered one of the pioneering figures of existentialist and feminist philosophy. Although her work spans multiple genres and address numerous modern social questions and classic philosophical dilemmas, it was the 1953...
Simone de Beauvoir: Existentialism, Phenomenology,...
Read moreTuesday Oct 18th, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)at Every Body Balance - Online Online, Boston, Massachusetts 00000
All classes are changing to Remote Video only for the time being. We'll revisit as the situation improves. A studio pilates class using core training props to assist in obtaining proper body alignment and mechanics or to increase the intensity of the exercise. How can we build strength on an unstable core? How can we increase our speed and...
All classes are changing to Remote Video only for...
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8:30am - 9:30am Eastern Time
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8:45am - 9:45am Eastern Time
Sat, Aug 20
8:30am - 9:30am Eastern Time
Sun, Aug 21
10:30am - 11:30am Eastern Time
Tue, Aug 23
7:30am - 8:30am Eastern Time
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Thursday Aug 18th, 8:30am - 9:30am Eastern Time
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This healing class focus's on Ying and Yang principals and ancient philosophy. Today we use the techniques of circular movements, tapping, meditation, and vocalization to awaken the bodies self healing response. Restoring a state of balance and health by opening of the acupressure points, meridians, and chakras. Ancient asian practitioner's used this...
This healing class focus's on Ying and Yang principals...
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11:00am - 12:15pm Central Time
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Tue, Aug 30
11:00am - 12:15pm Central Time
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11:00am - 12:15pm Central Time
Tue, Sep 13
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Tuesday Aug 16th, 11am - 12:15pm Central Time
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The very idea of imaginary numbers appears at first glance preposterous, like something out of science fiction or the wildest philosophy. A real or ordinary number multiplied by an “imaginary unit” somehow mathematically produces a “complex” number that has both theoretical and practical applications. Rene Descartes, who coined the “imaginary”...
The very idea of imaginary numbers appears at first...
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What is phenomenology? Drawing on lived, first-person experience, phenomenology is the attempt to analyze and understand the very structures of human experience and consciousness. What are the elements of perception, and why do different people, different subjects, perceive things differently? What’s universal about consciousness? In what ways do...
What is phenomenology? Drawing on lived, first-person...
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The Worst of All Possible Worlds: an Introduction to Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer is a true oddity in the history of philosophy. Although a great metaphysical systematizer in the tradition of Leibniz and Hegel, Schopenhauer posed a worldview entirely antithetical to the “optimism” characteristic of traditional Western philosophizing. Whereas...
The Worst of All Possible Worlds: an Introduction...
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“For the philosopher,” writes Walter Benjamin in The Arcades Project, “the most interesting thing about fashion is its extraordinary anticipations.” In other words, fashion is, in itself, an avant-garde: it shows us what the world will be like before that world has fully arrived. Its uncanny relation to the new is by no means the only...
“For the philosopher,” writes Walter Benjamin...
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How can we, as finite beings, grasp the concept of infinity? Yet humans have been contemplating infinity for millennia, whether inspired by nature, philosophy, spirituality—or mathematics. This course is a historical and conceptual approach to the latter realm, the mathematics of infinity. Our topics will include the ancient Greeks’ discovery...
How can we, as finite beings, grasp the concept of...
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Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology: a Critical Introduction If much of continental philosophy takes as its fundamental orientation a perspective that originates in the late 18th century, how equipped can it be to address issues of urgent contemporary concern: ecological crisis, the pre-eminence of digital technology, neuroscientific advances,...
Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology:...
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How are we to understand loneliness today? It appears that we are facing a mass epidemic of loneliness—one perhaps exacerbated by virological pandemic of COVID-19. Britain has appointed a Minister of Loneliness to counter rising rates of isolation. Approximately 20-43 percent of American adults over the age of 60 experience “frequent or intense...
How are we to understand loneliness today? It appears...
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Complete Course Title: A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: an Introduction to Marx In the mid-nineteenth century, a young Karl Marx wrote, in the form of a published open letter to Arnold Ruge: “But if the designing of the future and the proclamation of ready-made solutions for all time is not our affair, then we realize all the more clearly...
Complete Course Title: A Ruthless Criticism of Everything...
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Angela Y. Davis’ 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, is arguably the foundational text for the intellectual and political work being done by the prison abolitionist movement today. More broadly, Davis’ wide-ranging writing and political activism over the past five decades mark her as one of the most important contemporary intellectuals.In...
Angela Y. Davis’ 2003 book, Are Prisons...
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C.L.R. James’s life expresses the tensions between the center and the periphery of the modern capitalist world. He wrote encyclopedically on everything from dialectical philosophy to the Haitian Revolution, music to sports, radical politics to literary criticism, constantly revealing the surprising and often ignored interconnections of the world...
C.L.R. James’s life expresses the tensions between...
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