Deconstructing Derrida : tasks for the new humanities / edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas and Michael A. Peters.

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 theses as a springboard, the...

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Other Authors: Trifonas, Peter Pericles, 1960-, Peters, Michael (Michael A.), 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the humanities in deconstruction / Michael A. Peters and Peter Pericles Trifonas
  • 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
  • Right to humanities: of faith and responsibility / Denise Egéa-Kuehne
  • 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
  • Altering the material conditions of access to the humanities / John Willinsky
  • The grammatology of the future / Sung-Do Kim (interview with Gregory Ulmer)
  • Moving Devi / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  • Ourselves as another: cosmopolitical humanities / Peter Pericles Trifonas.