Deconstructing Derrida Tasks for the New Humanities
Responding to Jacques Derrida's vision for what a 'new' humanities should strive toward, Peter Trifonas and Michael Peters gather together in a single volume original essays by major scholars in the humanities today. Using Derrida's seven programmatic the
- PDF / 1,421,238 Bytes
- 230 Pages / 336 x 504 pts Page_size
- 67 Downloads / 222 Views
Deconstructing Derrida Tasks for the New Humanities Edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas and Michael A. Peters
DECONSTRUCTING DERRIDA
© Peter Pericles Trifonas and Michael A. Peters, 2005. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2005 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-0-312-29611-7 ISBN 978-1-4039-8064-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781403980649 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Deconstructing Derrida : tasks for the new humanities / edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas and Michael A. Peters. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–312–29609–6 (hardcover)—ISBN 0–312–29611–8 (pbk.) 1. Derrida, Jacques. 2. Humanities. I. Trifonas, Peter Pericles, 1960– II. Peters, Michael A. B2430.D484D38 2005 194—dc22
2004060111
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: November 2005 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America.
CONTENTS
Introduction The Humanities in Deconstruction Michael A. Peters and Peter Pericles Trifonas One
Two
The Future of the Profession or the Unconditional University (Thanks to the “Humanities,” What Could Take Place Tomorrow) Jacques Derrida (Translated by Peggy Kamuf ) Sovereignty Death Literature Unconditionality Democracy University J. Hillis Miller
Three Right to Humanities: Of Faith and Responsibility Denise Egéa-Kuehne Four
Five
Six
Higher Education and Democracy’s Promise: Jacques Derrida’s Pedagogy of Uncertainty Henry A. Giroux War, Crimes against Humanity, and the New Humanities: Derrida and the Promise of Europe Michael A. Peters Higher Education and Everyday Life Stanley Aronowitz
Seven Altering the Material Conditions of Access to the Humanities John Willinsky
1
11
25
37
53
82 104
118
vi
Contents
Eight The Grammatology of the Future Sung-Do Kim (Interview with Gregory Ulmer)
137
Nine Moving Devi Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
165
Ten
205
Index
Ourselves as Another: Cosmopolitical Humanities Peter Pericles Trifonas
221
I N T RO D U C T I O N
The Humanities in Deconstruction Michae l A. Pete r s and Pete r Pe ri cle s Tri fonas
To the discovery of the outward world the Renaissance added a still greater achievement, by first discerning and bringing to light the full, whole nature of man. This period . . . first gave the highest development to individuality, and then led the individual to t
Data Loading...
