Derrida

The Derrida-Habermas reader

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This work considers the debate between two of the most prominent philosophers and social theorists of the 20th century: Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas. It presents a collection of articles by the two figures and by those who have written about them, and includes pieces publ…

Teaching Religion and Literature

by Boscaljon, Daniel, Levinovitz, Alan

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Teaching Religion and Literature provides a practical engagement with the pedagogical possibilities of teaching religion courses using literature, teaching literature classes using religion, and teaching Religion and Literature as a discipline. Featuring chapters written by awar…

Derrida and law

by Legrand, Pierre

fromPhilosophers and law

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From the trace to the law : Derridean politics / Leonard Lawlor -- Why deconstruction is beneficial / Ben Mathews -- Derrida on law : or, poststructuralism gets serious / John P. McCormick -- Derrida and law : legitimate fictions / Margaret Davies -- Deconstruction is justice / …

The Forgiveness to Come: The Holocaust and the Hyper-Ethical

by Banki, Peter Jason

fromJust ideas

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This book is concerned with the aporias, or impasses, of forgiveness, especially in relation to the legacy of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Banki argues that, while forgiveness of the Holocaust is and will remai…

The forgiveness to come: the Holocaust and the hyper-ethical

by Banki, Peter

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This book is concerned with the aporias, or impasses, of forgiveness, especially in relation to the legacy of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Banki argues that, while forgiveness of the Holocaust is and will remai…

The settler imaginary creates Hawaii as a distinct space from Hawaiʻi. Drawing on the work of Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, and Eve Tuck I seek to explore the overlapping of two distinct epistemological territories sharing the same physical location. This …

This dissertation develops the practical and political dimensions of Jacques Derrida’s post-humanist approach to animal ethics. It does this by creatively theorizing the post-human and the post-secular together. After providing a novel outline of Derrida’s unique theoretical app…

American Hospitality rereads the canon of American literature by focusing attention on the centrality of hospitality to the twentieth-century American literary imagination. It argues that twentieth-century U.S. authors employ scenes of hospitality (scenes of welcoming and withho…

Text Machines explores the rhetorical and technological resonances of Martin Heidegger’s “event of appropriation” and Paul de Man’s “material event”. The crucial questions here are what it would mean to approach the “text machine” of which de Man writes as a “question concerning…

This thesis uses the photographic portrait as an example of contemporary art practice to examine developments in aesthetic sensibility and constructions of meaning with particular address to ineffable qualities in both the subject and in the photograph. It examines the contribut…