Deconstructing Derrida. Tasks for the New Humanities

Peter TRIFONAS and Michael A. PETERS, Deconstructing Derrida. Tasks for the New Humanities, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 232 p.

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.

Author Bio:

Peter Trifonas is assistant professor of social and cultural studies in education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto. He resides in Toronto, Ontario. Michael Peters is research profesor of education at the University of Glasgow and has a personal chair at the University of Auckland. He resides in Glasgow, Scotland, and Auckland, New Zealand.

Table of contents:

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