Amazingly the last 11 weeks or so I 've been part of a group learning about Political Philosophy (a zoom class from City Lit).
I like Philosophy ‘excursions’ but also the breaks from them, a few weeks of not scratching my head is welcome – this week a class on Leonardo Da Vinci (3 of 3) and also yesterday a talk on Japanese Woodcut (which was very good too - more about this later).
Talking with a friend from my long ago school days on the subject of ‘Populism’ being a vehicle of both the Left and Right he suggested that Xenophobia is part of the Populist mix and that this is present too in some of the Corbyn support that remains within Labour (this would perhaps rule out U.S. Democrat/Socialist Bernie Sanders as he is more sharing of the fight & glory and is welcoming of people from other countries).
The last week we were focused on Feminism and my contribution in a small group discussion was to seek to understand how much Simone de Beauvoir was talking from her own rather privileged lived ‘bourgeoise’ experience (of course no conclusions were made but possibility of plenty of debate) – I’ve attached the summary we were given ahead of the class showing some thinkers.
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