Untimely Mediations

Proposed Reading Sequence

Week One
Sprague: The Older Sophists
Detienne: The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece

Week Two
Plato: Protagoras
Plato: Phaedrus
Aristotle: On Sophistical Refutations
Waeger: Selections from Paideia I (Book II, chapters 3 & 5)
Waeger: Selections from Paideia III (Chapter 3)
Aristophanes: The Clouds

Week Three
Isocrates: Selections from Isocrates I (Antidosis, Against the Sophists, On the Team of Horses, Nicocles, To Nicocles, Encomium of Helen)
Waeger: Selections from Paideia III (Chapters 2-6)

Week Four
Hegel: Selections from Lessons on the Philosophy of History I
Marx: Selections from Writings of the Young Marx
Foucault: Fearless Speech
Derrida: White Mythology

Week Five
Welch: Electric Rhetoric

Week Six
Stengers: The Invention of Modern Science

Week Seven
Deleuze: The Logic of Sense

Week Eight
Leroi-Gourhan: Gesture and Speech

Week Nine
*Steigler: Technics and Time I

Week Ten
*Nealon: Foucault Beyond Foucault
*Marx: Fragment on Machines

Week Eleven
*Galloway: Protocol

Week Twelve
*Zizek: The Plague of Fantasies

Week Thirteen
Bataille: Selections from Visions of Excess

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