Courses

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Verdurin host courses, seminars, and reading groups for those interested in exploring the historical, political, and philosophical underpinnings of today’s culture and wishing to develop analytical and practical skills needed to for its renewal.

Our courses take the form of convivial group meetings at Verdurin. Some courses are accompanied by online versions available to anyone worldwide.

  • Zeitgeist: a philosophy of history course

    Nina Power
    Zeitgeist

    The next in-person edition starts on 28 October 2025.

    An online version is available.

    How do humanity’s great abstractions function over time? This course on the philosophy of history considers the subject in chaos, stasis, progress, and providence.

  • Iconoclasm

    Nina Power
    Iconoclasm

    An online version is available.

    This four-module course examines one of the deepest anthropological, religious, political, and aesthetic aspects of human existence: the question of images.

Past courses

  • Jacob Koster: The Return of Aesthetics

    Jacob Koster
    The Return of Aesthetics

    Long considered a moribund discipline, aesthetics has made a surprise comeback. This seminar traces its from the Enlightenment to the onset of Modernity.

  • Jacob Koster: What was Aesthetics?

    Jacob Koster
    What Was Aesthetics

    What aesthetics was before it was subjected to a radical critique since the mid-19th century? This course considers the history of the concept from Antiquity to the Renaissance.

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