Our first-ever book club will be held on Tuesday, August 3rd at 5 p.m. CT / 6 p.m. ET on Zoom. Join the editors and a select group of Point readers for a conversation about Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity, which we will pair with Apoorva Tadepalli’s essay from issue 20, “Treat Yourself,” about moving beyond millennial burnout.
The Beauvoir selection: Section 5, “Ambiguity”—from the beginning of the chapter through the paragraph ending with the sentence: “We object to the inquisitors who want to create faith and virtue from without; we object to all forms of fascism which seek to fashion the happiness of man from without; and also the paternalism which thinks that it has done something for man by prohibiting him from certain possibilities of temptation, whereas what is necessary is to give him reasons for resisting it.”
Registration is capped at 15 participants. Participants will be admitted on a first-come, first-serve basis; after the initial cap is reached there will be a waiting list. We ask that all registered participants submit a discussion question or prompt to the facilitators by July 31st.
Our first-ever book club will be held on Tuesday, August 3rd at 5 p.m. CT / 6 p.m. ET on Zoom. Join the editors and a select group of Point readers for a conversation about Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity, which we will pair with Apoorva Tadepalli’s essay from issue 20, “Treat Yourself,” about moving beyond millennial burnout.
The Beauvoir selection: Section 5, “Ambiguity”—from the beginning of the chapter through the paragraph ending with the sentence: “We object to the inquisitors who want to create faith and virtue from without; we object to all forms of fascism which seek to fashion the happiness of man from without; and also the paternalism which thinks that it has done something for man by prohibiting him from certain possibilities of temptation, whereas what is necessary is to give him reasons for resisting it.”
Registration is capped at 15 participants. Participants will be admitted on a first-come, first-serve basis; after the initial cap is reached there will be a waiting list. We ask that all registered participants submit a discussion question or prompt to the facilitators by July 31st.