Deleuze in Delhi, Shankara in San Francisco

Forum for Philosophical Studies: A Deleuze April Monday, March 26, 2012

The Philosophy Reading Group commences next week. And this time we read Deleuze! Here are the course details: COURSE: A Deleuzian Century, was it? [Every Tuesday (starting 3 April 2012), 2.30 pm]

Michel Foucault, in the Theatrum Philosophicum prophesized that ‘one day, perhaps, this century will be called Deleuzian’. Why might that be! READINGS:
1. Michel Foucault, Theatrum Philosophicum

2. Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, ‘Introduction: Rhizome’, A Thousand Plateaus

3. Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, selections from, Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature

4. Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, selections from What is Philosophy?

5. Gilles Deleuze, selections from The Logic of Sense

6. Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, selections from Anti-Oedipus
7. Gilles Deleuze, ‘Introduction: Repetition and Difference’, Difference and Repetition

Those interested, please email me at silikamohapatra@gmail.com to confirm your participation. Posted by Silika Mohapatra at 8:53 PM 

(title unknown) Posted by Matthew David Segall on March 28, 2012

I’ll be in dialogue with a friend and colleague at CIIS, James Barnes, this Friday. We will be discussing the convergences and divergences in the thoughts of Schelling and Shankara. To what extent were both after a nondual philosophy? I’ll argue that Schelling ends up affirming a trinitarian view of Godhead that preserves differentiation (though still a differentiation-in-unity) for the sake of freedom and love, whereas more strictly nondual systems like Advaita Vedanta leave us having to deny these as, at best, relative possibilities, and at worst, falsehoods. 

Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University -  Yesterday 8:52 PM  - Jerry Lewis writes:

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When people prostrated themselves before the marble plinth on top of Aurobindo's tomb, he cringed. Later, at Esalen, Michael remembered both Spiegelberg's positive lessons and the ashram's negative ones. He and Dick consistently ...

from: Craig Calhoun Calhoun@ssrc.org cc: Jonathan VanAntwerpen vanantwerpen@ssrc.org date: 29 March 2008 07:55 subject: Re: A Secular Age, featuring Charles Taylor and Michael Warner Dear Mr Mohapatra

Thanks for your message. You are right that the Immanent Frame is more focused on Western Christianity. This reflects partly how it started in relation to Charles Taylor's book. But I hope - and I am sure Jonathan VanAntwepen agrees - that it will grow with more contributions from other orientations.
And of course Sri Aurobindo is indeed a very interesting thinker to consider in that regard. I am copying Jonathan so he has your message. With all best wishes, Craig Calhoun 3:55 AM