This interactive book club will provide opportunities for readers of the book-Bruce Hyde and Drew Koppp: Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and a New Possibility of Being Human--to read together and generate the book for themselves.
Disclaimer: This group and its posts, calls, and events are not sponsored by Landmark Worldwide.
Every Monday 5:45 - 7:00 (or later) NYC time—limited to 100 participants.
While participation in the call is free of charge, we do invite participants to donate to the Fund for Ontological Inquiry in Education, which is designated for the benefit of Rowan students, faculty, and staff creating and maintaining Turning Toward Being: the Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education.
Owning one’s own copy of Speaking Being is encouraged, but not necessary to participate, as an electronic version of the book is shared during the call. For the first hour of the call, we read the book Speaking Being aloud either in the whole group, or in smaller break out groups, so that anyone who wants to read out loud can do so, unless they only wish to listen.
As we read, questions and comments are welcomed as long as any questions and comments remain within the domain of the book and the particular passage we are reading. The conversation throughout is managed by Drew Kopp, co-author of the book, who may or may not call on those who have raised their electronic hands to share during the reading of the book. Beginning at around 6:45, the floor is opened to share and discuss what has opened up for people out of reading the text together.
Here is the intention of the call:
to practice both horizontal and vertical reading, that is, to read the text carefully--from beginning to end, getting what the text says--and to read it closely, that is, to be open to surprise and to then follow lines of flight that emerge from looking with wonder at what shows up in reading the text, all the while maintaining the ontological direction of the conversation such that each and every participant--whether reading or listening or engaging in the inquiry emerging from the reading--discovers something for themselves today, which they may or may not share on the call.
Here is the durable Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86349278277?pwd=Q0lvWmdXZGh0cC9HRlRwTkFjSVNXZz09
The call takes place every Monday unless falling on a holiday.