TUTORING
@theorypleeb
TUTORING: Consider me a tour guide and accomplice in the fields of critical theory and philosophy. I'm no expert, but I have a lot of experience in finding answers to questions and for explaining things in multiple ways to make difficult concepts more accessible.
My main interests are in political philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, gender and critical theory. If you don't know where to start, see the list at the bottom of this page where I have listed texts that I've worked with others on, ranked by order of difficulty. If you would like to read a book with me that is not on the list, we can talk about that. If you would prefer a series of discussions on a particular theme, say, a crash course in existentialism that works with you wherever you are already at, then let's talk about that as well. Basically the best bet is to just set up a short (free) consultation with me through email. We can figure out what works best that way.
PRICING: My prices are set by my availability and goals. It is simply an approximate calculation of my own capacities and the amount of timenergy and attention that I have available and am able to commit to each session. For each hour session I will have spent at least two hours that week preparing, not to mention the last seven years of research that I bring to the session. (Subject to change due to availability) $45 for a single session, $150 for a 6 part series.
Thank you!
Completely new to philosophy and theory/Some generally good lite reading
Sophie's World, Jostein Gaardner
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
All Things Shining, Hubert Dreyfus
Alone Together, Sherry Turkle
Reclaiming Conversation, Sherry Turkle
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Technopoly, Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck, Mark Manson
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown
Mastery, Robert Green
Strategy: A History, Lawrence Freedman
Rules for Radicals, Saul D. Alinsky
The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard
beginner
Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher
The True Life, Alain Badiou
Four Futures, Peter Frase
Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle
Lacan: A Beginner's Guide, Lionel Bailly
Reading Lacan, Slavoj Zizek
Capitalism: A conversation, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi
Scales of Justice, Nancy Fraser (see the #BookTrailer video I did for this here)
Existentialism Is A Humanism, Jean Paul Sartre
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, David Harvey
A Brief History of Neoliberalism, David Harvey
DEBT: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber
Xenofeminist Manifesto
INTermediate
Plato's Republic
Aristotle's Politics
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
The Prince, Machiavelli
Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Notes Toward A Performative Theory of Assembly, Judith Butler
The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt
The Lacanian Subject, Jacques Lacan
Black Skin, White Masks, Franz Fanon
Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fanon
History of Sexuality Vol. 1, Michel Foucault
The Consumer Society, Jean Baudrillard
difficult
Capital Volume 1, Karl Marx
Gender Trouble, Judith Butler (see my #BookTrailer video here)
Homo Sacer, Georgio Agamben
Empire, Hardt and Negri
Sublime Object of Ideology, Slavoj Zizek
Basic Writings, Martin Heidegger
extreme
Being and Nothingness, Jean Paul Sartre
Phenomenology of Perception, Marice Merleau-Ponty
Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida
Totality and Infinity, Emmanuel Levinas
Being and Time, Martin Heidegger
Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel
Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze
Some books I will be reading in 2019 (not exhaustive, and subject to change)
Sophie's World, Jostein Gaardner
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
All Things Shining, Hubert Dreyfus
Alone Together, Sherry Turkle
Reclaiming Conversation, Sherry Turkle
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Technopoly, Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck, Mark Manson
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown
Mastery, Robert Green
Strategy: A History, Lawrence Freedman
Rules for Radicals, Saul D. Alinsky
The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard
beginner
Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher
The True Life, Alain Badiou
Four Futures, Peter Frase
Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle
Lacan: A Beginner's Guide, Lionel Bailly
Reading Lacan, Slavoj Zizek
Capitalism: A conversation, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi
Scales of Justice, Nancy Fraser (see the #BookTrailer video I did for this here)
Existentialism Is A Humanism, Jean Paul Sartre
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, David Harvey
A Brief History of Neoliberalism, David Harvey
DEBT: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber
Xenofeminist Manifesto
INTermediate
Plato's Republic
Aristotle's Politics
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
The Prince, Machiavelli
Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Notes Toward A Performative Theory of Assembly, Judith Butler
The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt
The Lacanian Subject, Jacques Lacan
Black Skin, White Masks, Franz Fanon
Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fanon
History of Sexuality Vol. 1, Michel Foucault
The Consumer Society, Jean Baudrillard
difficult
Capital Volume 1, Karl Marx
Gender Trouble, Judith Butler (see my #BookTrailer video here)
Homo Sacer, Georgio Agamben
Empire, Hardt and Negri
Sublime Object of Ideology, Slavoj Zizek
Basic Writings, Martin Heidegger
extreme
Being and Nothingness, Jean Paul Sartre
Phenomenology of Perception, Marice Merleau-Ponty
Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida
Totality and Infinity, Emmanuel Levinas
Being and Time, Martin Heidegger
Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel
Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze
Some books I will be reading in 2019 (not exhaustive, and subject to change)
EXTREME:
- Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari (lil book trailer here)
- The Sublime Object of Ideology, Slavoj Zizek
- Totality & Infinity, Emmanuel Levinas
- Theory of the Subject, Alain Badiou
- The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt
- Seminars 11 and 17 by Jacques Lacan
difficult
- Critical Race Theory: Key Writings, by Kimberle Crenshaw and Neil Gotanda
- Das Kapital, by Karl Marx
Intermediate: - Notes Toward A Performative Theory of Assembly, Judith Butler
- Capitalism, A Conversation, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi
beginner
- Custom Reality and You, Peter Coffin
- Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari (lil book trailer here)
- The Sublime Object of Ideology, Slavoj Zizek
- Totality & Infinity, Emmanuel Levinas
- Theory of the Subject, Alain Badiou
- The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt
- Seminars 11 and 17 by Jacques Lacan
difficult
- Critical Race Theory: Key Writings, by Kimberle Crenshaw and Neil Gotanda
- Das Kapital, by Karl Marx
Intermediate: - Notes Toward A Performative Theory of Assembly, Judith Butler
- Capitalism, A Conversation, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi
beginner
- Custom Reality and You, Peter Coffin