Philo Agora's talk Next Tuesday, March
30th, will be Matt del Nevo Louise Salome and Rilke
The Rilke talk is the second of three talks on
the influence of Russian born Louise
Andreas-Salome (1861-1937). She was one of the
great feminists of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Nietzsche proposed to her, she worked
with Freud at the inception of psychoanalysis,
and she had a love affair and passionate
relationship with the twentieth century's
greatest lyric poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, until
his death in 1926. This talk will chart the ideas
that moved them both, ideas of love, death and other difficulties.
Lou Salome wrote 15 novels plus philosophical
and psycho-analytical works. With her
indifference to moral conventions and insatiable
intellectual curiosity, she challenged the
gender roles of her day. Each talk - Nietzsche,
Rilke, Freud - will be complete in itself. The
first talk, on Nietzsche, is on our website
www.philoagora.com/ under the 2009 talks.
Matt was for many years the convenor of the
philosophy café at Berkelouws books. He is full
time faculty lecturer in philosophy at the
Catholic Institute and has recently published
some of his philosophical thoughts in The Valley Way of the Soul.
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Tuesday March 30 at the Fair Trade Coffee
House, 33 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, $6.00 includes
a free cup of coffee or tea. Start at 7.30.
Finish at 9.00pm. If you want to eat, come
early; no meals can be ordered after 6.45
pm. All profits from the Fair Trade Cafe go to
support Palms, an NGO working in Third World development.
Philo Agora has a talk on a philosophy
theme every two weeks. Philo Agora's website
is <http://www.philoagora.com>www.philoagora.com .
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THE PHILOAGORA ANNUAL AWARD
PhiloAgora has instituted an annual prize of
$100 for the essay and talk that best meets our
objectives of relating philosophical thought to
how we act out our lives, individually or
collectively . Papers of 2500 words or so will
be placed on the website and judged at the end
of the year. Details on are on our website. Open
to undergrads, postgrads, everybody, except full time academics..
Philo Agora
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