Meetup to discuss Postmodernism: "The death of God," fractured cultures and subcultures, structuralism, post-structuralism, the arts, etc.
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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 Criti… |
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"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 v…
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"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 nam…
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Come join other local amateur philosophers the first Wednesday of each month from 7-9pm as we explore the answers to life’s most profound questions at The Thinkers’ Club. Modeled on the Socrates Café concept, the Thinkers’ Club is a reading and disc…
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Let's meet and talk about topics from philosophy to misosophy, politics to economics, religion to atheism. Let's pick questions and dwell on them together over a cup of tea, a glass of wine or a beer. Everybody is welcome to join and discuss in an e… |
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This group is for people interested in all types of psychoanalytic theory, including classical, contemporary, and the intersections between psychoanalysis and other theories. This could range from Freud's writings to object-relations theory to femini… |
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"Instead of the modernist quest for meaning in a chaotic world, the postmodern author eschews, often playfully, the possibility of meaning, and the postmodern novel is often a parody of this quest. Postmodern authors also tend to celebrate chance ov…
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Jean Paul Sartre: "Existentialism is nothing else but an attempt to draw the full conclusions from a consistently atheistic position." http://bit.ly/6HbK0V Jean Paul Sartre: "Existentialism is not atheist in the sense that it would exhaust itself in…
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Theology Pub is a monthly open theological conversation. 2nd Tuesday of the month 6:30 - 8p Horseshoe Lounge on 20th between Penn and Logan in uptown. Here are the rules: 1. No one is allowed to try and convince other pe…
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We are a meetup devoted to the study of radical political theory and cultural criticism - socialism(s), world systems, critical theory/media analysis, prefigurative politics, utopian projects, liberation theology, critical pedagogy, or dot-communism… |
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December 19, 2011
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Now forming, peer supervision group for San Diego mental health professionals (therapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, life coaches, and others) who are interested in narrative and post-modern therapeutic ideas, perspect… |
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September 2, 2011
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The Lord is the best healer. Please come to share how your postmodern practice integrate into your relationship with Jesus and vice versa. |
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August 14, 2011
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We are a meetup devoted to the study of radical political theory and cultural criticism - socialism(s), world systems, critical theory/media analysis, prefigurative politics, utopian projects, liberation theology, critical pedagogy, or dot-communism… |
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July 19, 2011
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We'd like to go beyond such recent commonplace doctrines as 'the end of history' (Fukuyama), 'the clash of civilizations' (Huntington), or 'the world is flat' (T. Friedman), to explore the actual political-economic, political-sociological, political-… |
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July 13, 2011
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"Instead of the modernist quest for meaning in a chaotic world, the postmodern author eschews, often playfully, the possibility of meaning, and the postmodern novel is often a parody of this quest. Postmodern authors also tend to celebrate chance ov…
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Let's meet and talk about topics from philosophy to misosophy, politics to economics, religion to atheism. Let's pick questions and dwell on them together over a cup of tea, a glass of wine or a beer. Everybody is welcome to join and discuss in an e… |
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March 14, 2011
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A Group for Christians that are seeking something more in faith. Those that are desiring to know more about what Scripture means for them. A time to come together and learn about God in a way which is open for you to come in as you truly are and no… |
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February 28, 2011
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Writing Hemingway Coming upon our 1st year anniversary soon! We are a group of serious minded writers focused on publishing our work; any socializing takes place outside the meetup time. Members rarely miss a meetup. We keep in small groups… |
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February 25, 2011
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We welcome all, of any level of acquaintance with Jacques Lacan! Know that your founders are twenty something working professionals with no formal education in Lacan. We simply envision a no holds barred, down to earth disucssion of Lacan, as we…
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September 25, 2010
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Theology Pub is a monthly open theological conversation. 2nd Tuesday of the month 6:30 - 8p Horseshoe Lounge on 20th between Penn and Logan in uptown. Here are the rules: 1. No one is allowed to try and convince other pe…
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