Name: Philosophy for Plebs Session 2 - Home Truths: House and Home in Philosophy
Start: 2024-10-28T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Møllegade 10, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark

Philosophy for Plebs Session 2 - Home Truths: House and Home in Philosophy

Home Truths: House and Home in Philosophy
The home occupies a tense space in culture, at once central and marginal, fetishised and maligned. For some theorists, it is an intimate site of imagination, dreaming and identity-formation. For second-wave feminists, it was a prison where women were trapped into gruelling, invisible labour.
What does it mean to make a home? Why do inhabited spaces feel so different to other interiors? How might the domestic interior support, reflect or help us to construct a sense of self? Can the practice of homemaking be separated from its association with conservative (or reactionary) notions of gender? And to what extent have social media, COVID lockdowns and economic precarity transformed our understanding of home in the 2020s?
Join us for the next meeting of Philosophy for Plebs, where we’ll consider these challenging questions of house and home. We’ll read the first chapter of Gaston Bachelard’s classic work of phenomenology, The Poetics of Space, and an essay on feminist approaches to domesticity by Iris Marion Young. You can download these readings from our shared drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dYFRMexww4pvHFMJ9Tb7i-yYfbVsWWl6?usp=sharing