1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973482903321

Titolo

Deconstructing Derrida : Tasks for the New Humanities / / by M. Peters, P. Trifonas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

9786611368807

9781281368805

1281368806

9781403980649

1403980640

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TrifonasPeter Pericles <1960->

PetersMichael <1948-> (Michael A.)

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Education

Conservation biology

Ecology

Religion

Social sciences

Epistemology

Conservation Biology

Society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

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.