Counter-institutions : Jacques Derrida and the question of the university / Simon Morgan Wortham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wortham, Simon.

Contributor:

Fynsk, Christopher, 1952-

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 55.

Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Education, Higher--Philosophy.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

xi, 164 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This book provides a definitive account of Jacques Derrida's involvement in debates about the university. Derrida has long argued that philosophy simultaneously belongs and does not belong to the university. Philosophy must come from "outside" the institution in which, nevertheless, it comes to define itself. Morgan Wortham asks whether a broader tension between "belonging" and "not belonging" also forms the basis of Derrida's political thinking and activism. Key questions about citizenship, rights, the nation-state and Europe, asylum, immigration, terror, and the "return" of religion all involve assumptions and ideas about "belonging," and they entail constitutional, legal, institutional, and material constraints that take shape on the basis of such ideas.

Contents:

Counter-institution, counter-deconstruction

Teaching deconstruction: giving, taking, leaving, belonging and the remains of the university

"The fidelity of a guardian" : the "double-keeping" of Jacques Derrida

Auditing Derrida

The claim of the humanities: a discussion with Christopher Fynsk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-159) and index.

ISBN:

9780823226658

9780823226665

OCLC:

74492153

Publisher Number:

9780823226658

9780823226665