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Overview"Class Acts examines two often neglected aspects of Jacques Derrida's work as a philosopher, his public presentations at lectures and conferences and his teaching, along with the question of the ""speech act"" that links them. What, Michael Naas asks, is one doing when one speaks in public in these ways? The book follows Derrida's itinerary with regard to speech act theory across three public lectures, from 1971 to 1997, all given, for reasons the book seeks to explain, in Montreal. In these lectures, Derrida elaborated his critique of J. L. Austin and his own subsequent redefinition of speech act theory. The book then gives an overview of Derrida's teaching career and his famous ""seminar"" presentations, along with his own explicit reflections on pedagogy and educational institutions beginning in the mid-1970s. Naas then shows through a reading of three recently published seminars-on life death, theory and practice, and forgiveness-just how Derrida the teacher interrogated and deployed speech act theory in his seminars. Whether in a conference hall or a classroom, Naas demonstrates, Derrida was always interested in the way spoken or written words might do more than simply communicate some meaning or intent but might give rise to something like an event. Class Acts bears witness to the possibility of such events in Derrida's work as a pedagogue and a public intellectual." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael NaasPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN: 9780823298402ISBN 10: 082329840 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 05 October 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAbbreviations of Works Cited | xi Introduction: The Program | 1 Part I: Derrida in Montreal (A Play in Three Speech Acts ) Argument and Dramatis Personae | 13 Act 1. The Context (1971) | 15 Intermission 1: Glyph 1 | 41 Act 2. The Signature (1979) | 45 Intermission 2: Glyph 2 | 55 Act 3. The Event (1997) | 59 Encore: Cocoon | 69 Part II: The Open Seminar The Counter-Program (Syllabus) | 75 Class 1. Agrégations: The Chance of Life Death (1975–76) | 93 Class 2. Education in Theory and Practice (1976–77) | 111 Class 3. Grace and the Machine: Perjury and Pardon (1997–98) | 127 Conclusion: Actes de naissance | 149 Acknowledgments | 157 Notes | 159 Index | 183ReviewsClass Acts is a masterful and highly engaging work that has much to teach readers of Derrida about the philosopher's relation to speech act theory, his thinking of the event, and many other questions. At once elegant and playful, pedagogical yet attentive to the nuance and subtle turns in Derrida's work, the book is itself a masterclass in deconstructive reading. -- Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University Naas brings to this book an encyclopedic knowledge of Derrida's immense corpus, which he conveys with his signature lucidity and modesty. Class Acts reflects all of these virtues in tracing Derrida's abiding preoccupation with the nature of the speech act from the early 1970s to his death and linking this persistence to an understanding of Derrida's pedagogy and the teaching of philosophy on two continents. -- Andrew Parker, Rutgers University Class Acts is a masterful and highly engaging work that has much to teach readers of Derrida about the philosopher's relation to speech act theory, his thinking of the event, and many other questions. At once elegant and playful, pedagogical yet attentive to the nuance and subtle turns in Derrida's work, the book is itself a masterclass in deconstructive reading. ---Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University Naas brings to this book an encyclopedic knowledge of Derrida's immense corpus, which he conveys with his signature lucidity and modesty. Class Acts reflects all of these virtues in tracing Derrida's abiding preoccupation with the nature of the speech act from the early 1970s to his death and linking this persistence to an understanding of Derrida's pedagogy and the teaching of philosophy on two continents. ---Andrew Parker, Rutgers University Author InformationMichael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. His most recent books include The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida’s Final Seminar (2015), Plato and the Invention of Life (2018), and Don DeLillo, American Original: Drugs, Weapons, Erotica, and Other Literary Contraband (2020). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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