Sydney’s Philosophy in the Café - Philo Agora

Every Second Tuesday at 7:30 pm, Fair Trade Coffee Company, 33 Glebe Point Road, Glebe.

This Tuesday, March 30,  Matt del Nevo, Louise Andreas-Salome & Rainer Maria Rilke.

Lou Salome was one of the great feminists of the twentieth century. 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.

The Rilke talk is the second of three talks on the influence of Russian born Louise Andreas-Salome (1861-1937). Lou Salome wrote 15 novels plus philosophical and psycho-analytical works. With her indifference to moral conventions and insatiable intellectual curiosity, Lou Salome 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/
 
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.

Philo Agora is also looking for someone to help with our website. We need a willing member to spend aabout an hour per week updating our site to better reflect what is happening fortnightly within our group. Please contact any of the undersigned on the night or reply to this email.

Please note, the usual cook, Best, will not be available and no others can do the shift on the night.  The best we can do is to have sandwiches made.  We will have a mixed plate of 15 of the Fair Trade gourmet sandwiches (5 Ham and Cheese, 5 Tuscan Chicken and 5 Grilled Vegetable), payment by donation. The usual fare of coffee and cake will be available all evening. Further, the cafe will close from 7pm with only those paying our $6 cover charge allowed entry. We trust this will help streamline both the food and coffee delivery on the night.

Philo Agora's format is a talk for 20 minutes. The presenter then answers any questions of clarification from the floor. We then take a break of 10 minutes for more coffees and to mull over the talk and discuss it within small groups. The microphone is then passed around the audience in turn for comment, opinions, and often counter argument to a maximum of 3 minutes. The presenter is then given a 5 minute right of reply. We usually finish up at 9pm. The cover charge is $6 for the talk and your first cup of coffee.

Regards,

Sam, Peter & Hazel.