Deconstructing Derrida: Tasks for the New Humanities

by M. Peters, P. Trifonas

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312296117
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/03/2005
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

PETER TRIFONAS is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto in Canada.

MICHAEL PETERS is Research Professor of Education at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, UK and has a Personal Chair at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

The Future of the Profession or the Unconditional University (Thanks to the 'Humanities', What Could Take Place Tomorrow); J.Derrida Sovereignty Death Literature Unconditionality Democracy University; J.Hillis Miller Right to Humanities: Of Faith and Responsibility; D.Egéa-Kuehne Higher Education and Democracy's Promise: Jacques Derrida's Pedagogy of Uncertainty; H.A.Giroux War, Crimes Against Humanity, and the New Humanities: Derrida and the Promise of Europe; M.A.Peters Higher Education and Everyday Life; S.Aronowitz Altering the Material Conditions of Access to the Humanities; J.Willinsky The Grammatology of the Future; G.Ulmer Moving Devi; G.Chakravorty Spivak Ourselves as Another: Cosmopolitical Humanities; P.Pericles Trifonas

Editorial Reviews

'...Trifonas and Peters are to be commended for putting together a vital collection that speaks directly to the crisis of the modern university in general and to the future of the humanities in particular. Deconstructing Derrida should be requried reading for all academics'. - Kevin A. Aho - The European Legacy

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