[csaa-forum] Stathis Gourgouris on An Archē for Radical Democracy

[Philosophy@UWS]

Stathis Gourgouris is a visiting professor at the Philosophy Research Initiative of the University of Western Sydney. He has been in Sydney to deliver the “Thinking out Loud” lectures (http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/thinking_out_loud/2012). If you did not manage to get in the Monday or Wednesday lectures because they were booked out, please note that there are a few places left for the Friday lecture.

You can also come to a seminar that Stathis Gourgouris will be delivering at UWS. The seminar it titled “An Archē for Radical Democracy,” to take place 11am-1pm, Wednesday 28th May, at UWS Banktown, 20.G.05.

SPEAKER: Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University)
TITLE: An Archē for Radical Democracy
TIME: 11am – 1pm, May 28th 2012
PLACE: UWS Bankstown Campus, 20.G.05
ABSTRACT: An examination of the notion of archē in ancient Greek thought, from its initial appearance as a philosophical concept in the Anaximander fragment to its political uses in Aristotle and Herodotus, as a way of arguing for democracy's quintessential an-archic character.

BIO: Stathis Gourgouris is Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, author of Dream Nation (1996) and Does Literature Think? (2003), and editor of Freud and Fundamentalism (2010).

For the entire 2012 program and recordings of past Philosophy seminars at UWS see: http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2012
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