Eyes of the university : Right to philosophy 2 / Jacques Derrida ; translated by Jan Plug and others.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Derrida, Jacques.

Series:

Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)

Meridian, crossing aesthetics

Standardized Title:

Du droit à la philosophie. 2. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xi, 303 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

The essays collected here question the growing tendency to orient research and teaching towards a programmable and profitable end. The volume is therefore invaluable for the light it throws upon an underappreciated aspect of Derrida' s own engagement, both philosophical and political, in struggles against the stifling of philosophical research and teaching.

Contents:

Transfer Ex Cathedra: Language and Institutions of Philosophy

If There Is Cause to Translate I: Philosophy in its National Language (Toward a "licterature en francois") 1

If There Is Cause to Translate II: Descartes' Romances, or The Economy of Words 20

Vacant Chair: Censorship, Mastery, Magisteriality 43

Theology of Translation 64

Mochlos: Eyes of the University

Mochlos, or The Conflict of the Faculties 83

Punctuations: The Time of a Thesis 113

The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of its Pupils 129

"In Praise of Philosophy" 156

The Antinomies of the Philosophical Discipline: Letter Preface 165

Popularities: On the Right to the Philosophy of Right 175

"Who's Afraid of Philosophy?" (1980) 185

Letter from Francois Mitterrand to Greph (1981) 194

Titles (for the College International de Philosophie) (1982) 195

Sendoffs (for the College International de Philosophie) (1982) 216

Report of the Committee on Philosophy and Epistemology (1990) 250.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-303).

ISBN:

0804742960

0804742979

OCLC:

55228481