Next week, join us as we take a look at some excerpts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature. We’ll discuss Chapters IV (“Language”) and V (“Discipline”).  Hope to see you there — stay fierce!

Benjamin on/and Kafka next time! We’ll discuss Kafka’s “The Judgment” (pp. 78-86) alongside Walter Benjamin‘s essay “Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death” (pp. 111-140). Around 37 pages of reading this week, so try and give yourself enough time for all of it, and if you find yourself short, perhaps read the Benjamin and some of the very short stories instead. “

Two pieces in conversation this week: Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator” (pp. 69-82) dialogues with Novalis’ “Miscellaneous Observations” (aka “Pollen”) (pp. 23-46). Hope you’ll join us for the collision.

More by Walter Benjamin this Tuesday. From One-Way Street and Other Writings, we will discuss “To the Planetarium” (pp. 103), “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man” (pp. 107), and “Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia” (pp. 225). Can’t wait to go over these with you — until then!