Existentialist Society

Monthly lectures from previous years

2008
5 Feb Howard Dossor (Author of 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind')
"The Existential Act"
4 Mar Dr. Rod Foster (Philosophy, University of Melbourne)
"Existentialism and Human Nature"
1 Apr Assoc. Prof. Stan van Hooft (Philosophical Studies, Deakin University)
"How can we live in a world of global injustice?"
6 May John Lenarcic (University in the Pub, RMIT University)
"What is Red? Colour as the Canvas of Existence"
3 Jun Dr. Jack Reynolds (Philosophy, La Trobe University)
"The Unique Existentialism of Merleau-Ponty"
1 Jul Dr. Gordon Preece (Urban Seed)
"Vocation in a Post-Vocational World: A Response to Bauman's Liquid Modernity"
5 Aug Prof. Graham Priest (Philosophy, University of Melbourne)
"Heidegger and Zen"
2 Sep Howard Dossor (Author, 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind')
"Existential Ascent in Nikos Kazantzakis"
7 Oct John Noack (Carl Jung Society)
"Revisionist Neo-Platonism in Freud, Jung and George Arthur Gaskell"
4 Nov Melbourne Cup Day Lecture
Dr. David Rathbone (Philosophy, University of Melbourne)
"The Nightmare of Reason: Hegel, Kafka and Nietzsche"
2 Dec Jon Roffe (Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy)
"Foucault's Problem"
2009
3 Feb Brent McAuslan (Former Facilitator, Rajneesh USA)
"Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence: Prediction or Prophecy?"
February 2009 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 56 kB)
3 Mar Dr. Maurita Harney (Philosophy, University of Melbourne)
"The History of Existentialism in Australasian Philosophy"
7 Apr Dr. Matthew Sharpe (Deakin University)
"Art, Politics and Truth"
5 May Dr. Paul Ashton (Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE)
"Self and World: The Role of the Thinker in Hegel's Philosophy"
May 2009 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 536 kB)
2 Jun Dr. Ashley Woodward (Creative Arts, University of Melbourne)
"Nihilism, from Existentialism to Postmodernism"
June 2009 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 100 kB)
7 Jul Paul Daniels (Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy)
"Kant, the Sublime and the Subject"

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