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Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts highlights the Derridean assertion that the university must exist 'without condition' - as a bastion of intellectual freedom and oppositional activity whose job it is to question mainstream society. Derrida argued that only if the life of the mind is kept free from excessive corporate influence and political control can we be certain that the basic tenets of democracy are being respected within the very societies that claim to defend democratic principles. This collection contains eleven essays drawn from international scholars working in both the humanities and social sciences, and makes a well-grounded and comprehensive case for the importance of Derridean thought within the liberal arts today. Written by specialists in the fields of philosophy, literature, history, sociology, geography, political science, animal studies, and gender studies, each essay traces deconstruction's contribution to their discipline, explaining how it helps keep alive the 'unconditional', contrapuntal mission of the university. The book offers a forceful and persuasive corrective to the current assault on the liberal arts.

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Author:   Professor Mary Caputi ,  Dr Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr.
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Edition:   NIPPOD
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.335kg
ISBN:  

9781472589286

ISBN 10:   1472589289
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   23 October 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts Mary Caputi and Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. \ Part I Derrida and the Question of the University \ 1. Derrida, Deconstruction, and the University Mary Caputi, Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., and Keith Woodward \ 2. What Is the Institutional Form of Thinking? Simon Critchley \ Part II Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts: Disciplinary Professions of Faith \ 3. Grammatology Revisited: Derrida on Language, Truth and Deviant Logic Christopher Norris \ 4. Derrida and Literary Studies Jonathan Culler \ 5. Deconstructing History Mark Mason \ 6. Third Wave Feminism, Derridean Ragpicking, and the Liberal Arts Mary Caputi \ 7. Reading and Teaching Derrida in Departments of French and Francophone Literature and Cultural Studies Clorinda Donato \ 8. Derrida, Animals, and the Future of the Humanities Matthew Calarco \ 9. The Name of Sociology and the Trace of Derrida Colm J. Kelly \ 10. A Most Inhospitable Discipline: Jacques Derrida and the “Political Science to Come” Diane Rubenstein \ 11. Spacing Deconstruction Keith Woodward \ Afterword, In Brief – Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. and Mary Caputi \ Bibliography \ Index

Reviews

This is an excellent collection with notable scholars like Simon Critchley, Christopher Norris, Jonathan Culler mixing it with younger and subject specialist scholars to retherorize language and truth, literary studies, history, third-wave feminism, French studies, sociology, political science, spatial studies as well as the institutional form of thinking (Critchley), deconstruction of the university and the future of the humanities . If there was one book to read on the university this year, it would have to be Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts. -- Michael A. Peters, University of Illinois, USA Deconstruction provides a way to begin reassessing and reaffirming the responsibilities of an institution. Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts does not call for an uncritical dismissal of the memory of the university as institution, or a rejection of the institution's memory as disciplinary history. This excellent and thought provoking volume engages the role of the university in relation to the demands and conditions of a new international by opening up the logic of its existence as a cultural institution concerned with the problem of global education and the question of what knowledge is of most worth. -- Peter Trifonas, Professor with the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Mary Caputi and Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. begin Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts with a remark by Derrida that our work in universities is no longer possible without reflection on the political conditions of the institution. This guiding thought then becomes the basis for a fundamental rethinking of the disciplines in all its facets: the archive and the text, the new instrumentalism with its emphasis on applied knowledge over theoretical knowledge, the hierarchicalization of knowledge, the historical trajectories of the disciplines, the binary animality/humanity, and the new tasks for the humanities. This is an excellent collection with notable scholars like Simon Critchley, Christopher Norris, Jonathan Culler mixing it with younger and subject specialist scholars to retherorize language and truth, literary studies, history, third-wave feminism, French studies, sociology, political science, spatial studies as well as the institutional form of thinking (Critchley), deconstruction of the university and the future of the humanities . If there was one book to read on the university this year, it would have to be Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts. -- Michael A. Peters, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois and Professor of Policy, Cultural & Social Studies in Education, University of Waikato 20121122 Deconstruction provides a way to begin reassessing and reaffirming the responsibilities of an institution. Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts does not call for an uncritical dismissal of the memory of the university as institution, or a rejection of the institution's memory as disciplinary history. This excellent and thought provoking volume engages the role of the university in relation to the demands and conditions of a new international by opening up the logic of its existence as a cultural institution concerned with the problem of global education and the question of what knowledge is of most worth. -- Peter Trifonas, Professor with the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto 20121122

Author Information

Mary Caputi is Professor of Political Science at California State University at Long Beach, USA. She is the author of A Kinder, Gentler America: the Mythical 1950s (2005) and Voluptuous Yearnings: A Feminist Reading of the Obscene (1994). Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr. is Professor of Geography and Development and Associate Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona, USA. He is author of Social Geography: A Critical Introduction (2009) and co-editor of A Companion to Social Geography (2011) and Mapping Tourism (2003). Matthew Calarco, Assistant Professor (Department of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton, USA), Mary Caputi, Professor (Department of Political Science, California State University at Long Beach, USA), Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy (Philosophy Department, Eugene Lang College / The New School for Liberal Arts, USA), Jonathan Culler, Professor (Department of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University, USA), Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., Professor, School of Geography and Development and Associate Dean (School of Bahavioural and Social Sciences, The University of Arizona, USA), Clorinda Donato, Professor of French and Italian and Co-Director of the French and Francophone Studies Program (California State University at Long Beach, USA), Colm J. Kelly, Associate Professor (Department of Sociology, St. Thomas University, Canada), Mark Mason, Deputy Dean (University of Chichester, UK), Christopher Norris, Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy (School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK), Diane Rubenstein, Professor of Government and American Studies (Department of Government, Cornell University, USA), Keith Woodward, Assistant Professor (Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) .

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