Hey all it's your partial examined life host Mark Linson Meyer may have heard something about my upcoming class that I'll be teaching this fall the big books of continental philosophy. I'll be teaching this over the internet and I would like to invite

you to join me. If you take this class you'll be guided through a bit of reading of nine different

authors including Hegel Schopenhauer, Kirc Kirkegaard, Heidegger Sartra,

Meliponti, Camu, and Arent. The reading will be a manageable selection enough so you can feel that you're really grappling with these weird and

often difficult figures and really you can read as little or as much as you'd like

because you can listen in almost all cases here to the partially examined life episode associated with this reading,

there's no homework, there are no tests, it is a discussion-based format.

I give a little summary then we move right to your concerns, your questions, things in the text or

points made on the podcast that you noticed that you have something to say about or

you were just puzzled by. So this is your chance if you've been listening to us talk about these

texts but not actually diving into them yourself this is a great opportunity to do

so and even though these are some of the most difficult things to read in philosophy, I do not want you to be

afraid even if you are an absolute beginner. My first experience reading Hagel's phenomenology

was in my very first philosophy class.

And it hooked me.

It's why I'm still doing this now.

So the class will have some newbies, some old hats,

maybe revisiting these texts or reading parts of the text that they hadn't read before.

It'll be a wonderful mix.

We all come to the table with something different and you'll be able to get a lot out of your

fellow participants.

Now this might sound like a kind of a weird way

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