Prague, Czech Republic · Est. 2025

A reading group
for curious people.

In medieval Baghdad, scholars from across the known world gathered at the House of Wisdom to read together, discuss important texts, and explore big questions about knowledge of the natural world and how to live. It was a place where ideas crossed boundaries, and where conversation helped keep learning alive from one generation to the next.

In Prague, we're building something in that same spirit — a space to read great texts together, think carefully, and learn from one another. We explore philosophy, literature, and the arts through reading, reflection, and open discussion.

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

— Franz Kafka

The questions that animate us are old ones: How should we live? What is a good society? What is worth caring about? These aren't questions to answer alone or quickly. Reading together helps us join a long conversation — and add our own voices to it.

No expertise is needed: only curiosity, openness, and a willingness to think together.

“Men may live more truly and fully in reading Plato and Shakespeare than at any other time, because then they are participating in essential being and are forgetting their accidental lives.”

— Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

How it Works

Before each meeting, we read the selected text and come ready to discuss. No presentations, no lecturers — just a table of readers sharing what they found, what puzzled them, and what stayed with them.

Events attendece is free of charge.