Book Club

"Summa Theologica": Aquinas' comprehensive work on theology, ethics, and natural law.

"Difference and Repetition": Deleuze's work on difference, repetition, and ontology.

"The Book of Healing": Avicenna's comprehensive philosophical and scientific encyclopedia.

"The Philosophical Ideas of Swami Abhedananda": An exploration of Swami Abhedananda's philosophical ideas.

"Cartesian Meditations": Husserl's exploration of phenomenology and the nature of consciousness.

"The Enneads": Plotinus' writings on Neoplatonism, metaphysics, and spirituality.

"The Human Condition": Hannah Arendt's analysis of the nature of human existence in the modern world.

"Gravity and Grace": Simone Weil's reflections on spirituality, ethics, and divine grace.

"Zhuangzi": A foundational text of Daoism, emphasizing spontaneity and simplicity.

"Mencius": An exploration of the Confucian philosopher Mencius' ideas on morality and government.

"Sic et Non": Peter Abelard's collection of theological and philosophical questions.

"The New Science": Vico's philosophy of history and society.

"Candide": Voltaire's satirical novella on optimism and the human condition.

"The Theory of Communicative Action": Habermas' work on communicative rationality and social theory.

"The Poetics of Space": Bachelard's exploration of the phenomenology of poetic imagination.

Totality and Infinity": An exploration of ethics and responsibility in the relationship between self and other by Emmanuel Levinas.

"Process and Reality": Whitehead's metaphysical work on process philosophy.

"Prison Notebooks": Gramsci's writings on culture, politics, and Marxism.

"Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way": Nagarjuna's foundational text on Madhyamaka Buddhism, addressing the nature of reality.

"Of Grammatology": Jacques Derrida deconstructs the role of language in philosophy and culture.

"The Logic of Scientific Discovery": Karl Popper introduces the principles of falsifiability and the scientific method.

"The Myth of Sisyphus": Albert Camus' essay on the absurdity of life and the philosophical question of suicide.

"The Collected Papers": Charles Sanders Peirce's comprehensive collection of writings covering semiotics, pragmatism, and logic.

"Truth and Method": Hans-Georg Gadamer's examination of hermeneutics, interpretation, and tradition in understanding.

"Word and Object": Quine (W. V. O. Quine) challenges the analytic-synthetic distinction and explores language's role in knowledge.

"The Revolt of the Masses": Ortega y Gasset discusses the challenges of mass society and individualism.

"The Sublime Object of Ideology": Slavoj Žižek explores the role of ideology in culture and politics.

"Phenomenology of Perception": Maurice Merleau-Ponty's work on embodied perception and the nature of consciousness.

"Tractatus Theologico-Politicus": Benedict de Spinoza's treatise on theology, politics, and religious freedom.

"Experience and Nature": John Dewey's work on pragmatism, experience, and naturalism.

"Appearance and Reality": F. H. Bradley's exploration of metaphysics, idealism, and the nature of reality.

"Four Essays on Liberty": Isaiah Berlin's essays on the concept of liberty in political philosophy.

"The Ego and Its Own": Max Stirner's individualist philosophy advocating for egoism.

"Ordinatio": Duns Scotus' scholastic work on theology, metaphysics, and ethics.

"Powers of Horror": Julia Kristeva's psychoanalytic exploration of abjection and the human psyche.

"The Life of Reason": George Santayana's exploration of reason, ethics, and aesthetics.

"The Elements of Theology": Proclus' Neoplatonic work on metaphysics, theurgy, and the divine.

"Must We Mean What We Say?": Stanley Cavell's philosophy of language and skepticism.

"The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom": Sankara's text on Advaita Vedanta, discussing self-realization and ultimate reality.

"Natural Right and History": Leo Strauss' examination of political philosophy, natural right, and tradition.

"A Theory of Justice": John Rawls' influential work on justice, fairness, and social contract theory.

The Imaginary Institution of Society" by Cornelius Castoriadis: An exploration of the role of human imagination and creativity in the creation of social institutions and meaning.

"Homo Sacer" by Giorgio Agamben: A study of the concept of "bare life" and the implications of sovereignty and exclusion in modern politics.

"Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" by Richard Rorty: Rorty's critique of representationalism and his exploration of pragmatism as an alternative to traditional philosophy.