Spring 2023
Discussions, except where noted, will take place Thursdays at 4pm in Foster 305.
April 6
“Maxima in Minimis: The Lyric Sublime from Longinus to the Romantics”
Glenn W. Most, Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Classics
Respondent: Xinyue Zhang, PhD Student, Committee on Social Thought
Respondent: Xinyue Zhang, PhD Student, Committee on Social Thought
*MONDAY, April 17, 4:30 – 6pm
*Social Sciences Research Building 404
“The Little Prince Chapter 28”
Jimmy White, PhD Student, Classics and the Committee on Social Thought
Respondent: Rosanna Warren, Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Fundamentals, and the College
Respondent: Rosanna Warren, Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Fundamentals, and the College
*FRIDAY, May 12
“Authenticity as a Virtue: Reconciling Autonomy with the Claims of Community”
Pedro Franco, Visiting Student in the Committee on Social Thought
Respondent: Amy Levine, PhD Candidate, Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought
May 18
“Style, Shame, Philosophy: Three Themes in Nietzsche’s Jenseits von Gut und Böse”
Karl von der Luft, PhD Student, Committee on Social Thought
Respondent: Robert Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College
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Please contact David Hernandez (davidahb@uchicago.edu) or Jimmy White (jjwhite@uchicago.edu) with any questions.