An Archē for Radical Democracy

Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University)

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 lecture because they were booked out, please note that there are a few places left for the Wednesday and Friday lectures. (NB: Even if the Library indicates that the lectures are booked out, there are in practice still places available on the night.)

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, Monday 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