Tom Cohen (ed.)

Jacques Derrida and the Humanities

A Critical Reader
Herausgeber: Cohen, Tom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The work of Jacques Derrida has transformed our understanding of the humanities through its questioning of western metaphysics. This volume is a trans-disciplinary collection dedicated to his work and is distinguished by work on some of his most recent writings, and contains Derrida's address on 'the future of the humanities'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780521625654
• ISBN-10: 0521625653
• Artikelnr.: 22376787

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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 René Major
Glossary David Wills.