Narrative Reflections: Philosophy in Literature & Film

Join us if you're interested in philosophy, literature, film, and socializing. This group will be for people who want to talk about books and movies that explore life's big questions. We won't presuppose any definite answers. It's more about the journey than the destination.

We will have regular meetups with different formats. Once a month we will meet to discuss a book or selection from a book. Readings will vary widely, ranging from ancient philosophy and literature to contemporary fiction and nonfiction. Each month, we will also have social gatherings, film outings, and open discussion meetups.

We've selected an initial list of readings from the core curriculum reading list at Columbia University. Once we get close to the end of this initial list, we will meet as a group to decide future readings.

Initial Reading List:
-Aristophanes: The Clouds
-Plato: Apology, Crito, Phaedo
-William Shakespeare: King Lear
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein
-Karl Marx: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
-Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals
-Sigmund Freud: Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis
-W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
-Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
-Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart