The study of key texts in small seminar groups
AFTERNOON SEMINARS
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (continued from last term)
Leader Dr Joseph Milne
Text the Arden edition
26 April – 28 June 2023 Wednesdays, 10 weekly meetings
Time 2.30 – 4pm Please arrive promptly
Venue The School of Philosophy and Economic Science
Course cost
£100 or £75 Members of the Temenos Academy/Concessions.
Full-time students and Temenos Academy Young Scholars, £40.
Those attending must be aged 18 or over.
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar presents us with a drama of the conflicting codes of honour that shape the Roman world, plunging each protagonist into inescapable inner and outer conflicts. Caesar’s rising ‘ambition’ compels each to take a stand, willingly or unwillingly, wisely or unwisely, drawing them into the fateful sweep of time and the consequences of unheeded dreams, portents and omens. There is no simple moral right or wrong to choose between in Julius Caesar. The typical Roman virtues of constancy, honour, courage, loyalty, detachment, and resoluteness all prove unequal to the challenge of Caesar’s despotic rise to power and to the consequences of his assassination. In Shakespeare’s hands the fate of Rome becomes a mirror to the human condition where city and soul are inextricably bound together.
JOSEPH MILNE is the editor of Land and Liberty, the journal of the Henry George Foundation, the author of several Temenos Academy Papers, including The Lost Vision of Nature (2018), and of Natural Law and the Just Society, to be published by Shepheard-Walwyn. He is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy, a member of its Academic Board and teaches the ‘Mysticism’ module of the Foundation Course in the Perennial Philosophy.
Advance bookings only please
T 07513 883 335
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Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
Leader Dr Susanne Sklar
1 June – 6 July, Thursdays, 6 weekly meetings
Time 6.30 for 6.45 – 8.30pm Please arrive promptly
Venue Rudolf Steiner House, 1st floor Conference Room
35 Park Road, London NW1 6XT (BAKER ST Underground Station)
Course Cost
£60 or £45 Members of the Temenos Academy / Concessions.
Those attending must be aged 18 or over.
Limited to 12 participants.
Does Innocence change when accompanied by Experience? How do Innocence and Experience interrelate? How do ecology and theology coalesce? Can compassion transform society? In this six week course we’ll have the luxury of carefully reading each poem in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. We’ll read each poem aloud and, with the help of the Blake Archive, compare different versions of selected poems. Blake’s illuminated poems may seem simple, but they contain layers of meaning and allusion.
Dr Susanne Sklar has taught Blake in Russia, China, and Sweden as well as in the USA (Northwestern University, Carthage College) and the UK (Oxford). She is the author of Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’ As Visionary Theatre (OUP, 2011). Susanne has a DPhil in theology and writes about biblical women as well as William Blake.
Course Cost
£60 or £45 Members of the Temenos Academy / Concessions.
Those attending must be aged 18 or over.
Limited to 12 participants.
Advance bookings only please
T 07513 883 335
E temenosacademy@myfastmail.com
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