Deconstructing Derrida

Tasks for the New Humanities

M. Peters, P. Trifonas

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN: 9780312296117, 9780312296094
• eBook ISBN: 9781403980649
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Education General

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 contributors aim to reimagine, as Derrida did, the tasks for the new humanities in such areas as history of literature, history of democracy, history of profession, idea of sovereignty, and history of man. Deconstructing Derrida engages Jacques Derrida's polemic on the future of the humanities to come and expands on the notion of what us proper to the humanities in the current age of globalism and change.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction: The Humanities in Deconstruction
• One: The Future of the Profession or the Unconditional University (Thanks to the “Humanities,” What Could Take Place Tomorrow)
• Two: Sovereignty Death Literature Unconditionality Democracy University
• Three: Right to Humanities: Of Faith and Responsibility
• Four: Higher Education and Democracy’s Promise: Jacques Derrida’s Pedagogy of Uncertainty
• Five: War, Crimes against Humanity, and the New Humanities: Derrida and the Promise of Europe
• Six: Higher Education and Everyday Life
• Seven: Altering the Material Conditions of Access to the Humanities
• Eight: The Grammatology of the Future
• Nine: Moving Devi
• Ten: Ourselves as Another: Cosmopolitical Humanities
• Index