Welcome to the Greater Toronto Area Reading Group

Starting Sunday, Sep 17, 2023, at John M Kelly Library

Find us in room 201. New students are always welcome!

Review the full summer-fall reading group syllabus and PDFs here.

Upcoming Readings

Sep 24. Week I. Radical bourgeois philosophy IV. What is the Third Estate?

• Required - Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, What is the Third Estate? (1789)(pdf)
• Recommended - Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees (1732) (pdf)

Oct 1. Week J. Radical bourgeois philosophy V. Kant and Constant: Bourgeois society

• Required - Immanuel Kant, "Idea for a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view" (pdf) and "What is Enlightenment?" (1784) (pdf)
• Recommended - Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms (pdf)
• Recommended - Kant's 3 Critiques (png) and philosophy charts of terms (png)
• Required - Benjamin Constant, "The liberty of the ancients compared with that of the moderns" (1819) (pdf)
• Recommended - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the origin of inequality (1754) (pdf)
• Recommended - Rousseau, selection from On the social contract (1762) (pdf)