Jefferson Book Club
The Jefferson Book Club, open to all interested University of Texas undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty, is a forum for informal discussions of the great books.
For more information, to offer additional suggestions, or to join the book club, please contact Matthew Levinton at mlevinton@aol.com, join our facebook group, or visit http://thejeffersonbookclub.blogspot.com/ . New members are welcome to join at any time.
Spring 2013 Events
January 22: Movie Night: Crimes and Misdemeanors
February 6: The Arthashastra: Law, Governance, and Society in Ancient India
February 28: Aristotle on Friendship
March 19: Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (excerpt)
April 2: Augustine, City of God (excerpt)
April 23: Steinbeck, East of Eden (excerpt)
For details on times and places of these events, please see http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/coretexts/events/upcoming.php
Past Events
Movie Night, Chariots of Fire
Nietzsche, Problems of Socrates
Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy
Living Ethically, selections from Confucius
Excerpts from The Gulag Archipelago
Living Wisely, selections from Montaigne
Kafka, Before the Law
Movie Night: All the King's Men
Jane Austin, Sense and Sensibility
Francis Bacon, Great Instauration
Movie Night: Casablanca
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Movie Night: Bernardo Bertolucci's Il Conformista
Movie Night: The Counterfeit Traitor
Dostoyevski, The Brothers Karamazov (The Grand Inquisitor and other selections)
Euclid, Elements (Selections)
Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Franklin's Autobiography, parts 1 and 2
Thomas Jefferson (Selections)
Abraham Lincoln (Selections)
Midsummer Night's Dream, American Shakespeare Center performance followed by discussion
Movie Night: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy
1001 Nights, (Selections)
Movie Night: Pleasantville
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past (selections)
Ayn Rand, Anthem
Rousseau's Preface to Narcisse
Rousseau, Letter to D'Alembert
Movie Night: The Seventh Seal
Shakespeare, Coriolanus
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, A World Split Apart
Movie Night: Spartacus
Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Shakespeare, Tempest (following Actors from the London Stage performances)
Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments, selections
Leo Strauss, What is Liberal Education
Movie Night: Tristan and Isolde
Ibn Tufayl, Hayy Ibn Yacqzan
Voltaire, Candide
Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron
What is happiness? (Selections from the Stoics and Montaigne)
