Meeting: October 15, 2012

Our third Mellon meeting will be held Monday, October 15, 2012 at 12pm in Partridge Hall (Third World Center), Room 104.  Join us for lunch and conversation as we discuss John Dewey's The Public and Its Problems (1927) and Isaiah Berlin's "Two Concepts of Liberty" (1958).  Copies of the Dewey were distributed at our previous meeting--if you need a copy, please email Devon to arrange a pickup.  "Two Concepts of Liberty" is available on the accompanying documents site (available here, log in required).  You may also want to bring copies of Lippmann, as the Dewey piece responds directly to The Phantom Public.

Professor Philip Gould, the Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres (Department of English), will be joining our discussion of Dewey and Berlin.  Professor Gould has recently taught a graduate seminar on American liberalism and is the faculty advisor for our Mellon workshop.

Our previous meeting, in which we discussed Rawls and Lippmann raised a number of stimulating questions about the potency of liberalism as a political philosophy, as well as its more aesthetic use of the imagination.