Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Politics of PedagogyJacques Derrida is, arguably, the foremost philosopher of the humanities and their place in the university. Over his long career he was concerned with the humanities' fate, status, place, and contribution. Through his deconstructive readings and writings, Derrida reinvented the Western tradition by attending closely to those texts which constitute it. He redefined its procedures and protocols, questioning and commenting upon the relationship between commentary and interpretation, the practice of quotation, the delimitation of a work and its singularity, its signature, and its context: the whole form of life of literary culture, together with the textual practices and conventions that shape it. From early in his career, Derrida occupied a marginal in-between space - simultaneously textual, literary, philosophical, and political - a space that permitted him a freedom to question, to speculate, and to draw new limits to humanitas. With an up-to-date synopsis, review, and critique of his writings, this book demonstrates Derrida's almost singular power to reconceptualize and reimagine the humanities, and examines his humanism in relation to politics and pedagogy. |
Contents
Deconstruction Justice and | 15 |
Derrida as a Profound Humanist | 39 |
Derrida Nietzsche and the Return to the Subject | 59 |
Derrida as | 81 |
Between | 97 |
The University and the Future of the Humanities | 115 |
Welcome Postscript on Hospitality Cosmopolitanism | 133 |
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