Jacques Derrida and the Humanities
A Critical Reader
Published on 10. January 2002
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-521-62370-4 (ISBN)
Description
The work of Jacques Derrida has transformed our understanding of a range of disciplines in the humanities through its questioning of some of the basic tenets of western metaphysics. This volume is a trans-disciplinary collection dedicated to his work; the assembled contributions - on law, literature, ethics, history, gender, politics and psychoanalysis, among others - constitute an investigation of the role of Derrida's work within the field of humanities, present and future. The volume is distinguished by work on some of his most recent writings, and contains Derrida's own address on 'the future of the humanities'. In addition to its pedagogic interest, this collection of essays attempts to respond to the question: what might be the relation of Derrida, or 'deconstruction' to the future of the humanities? The volume presents the most sustained examples yet of what deconstruction is in its current phase - as well as what its possible future may be.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
710 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-62370-4 (9780521623704)
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Person
Tom Cohen is Professor at the Department of English at the State University of New York, Albany. He is the author of Anti-Mimesis (Cambridge, 1994)and Ideology and Inscription (Cambridge, 1998). He is also contributing editor of Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory (2000).
Content
Acknowledgments; Preface; Biographical chronology; Introduction; 1. The future of the profession, or the university without condition (thanks to the 'humanities', What Could Happen tomorrow) Jacques Derrida; 2. Derrida's literatures J. Hillis Miller; 3. The other sexual difference Peggy Kamuf; 4. Lemming: re-framing the Abyss David Wills; 5. Mimesis, presentation, and representation Marian Hobson; 6. Acts of engagement (philosophy in the performative) Chris Fynsk; 7. Hospitable thought Hent de Vries; 8. Derrida and politics Geoff Bennington; 9. Legitimate fictions Margaret Davies; 10. Fidelity at the limits of deconstruction and the prosthesis of faith Bernard Stiegler; 11. Wondering about history: some questions Derrida pursues in his early writings Peter Fenves; 12. Desistantial psychoanalysis Rene Major; Glossary David Wills.