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Who's Afraid of Philosophy? - Right to Philosophy 1 (Paperback, First)
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Who's Afraid of Philosophy? - Right to Philosophy 1 (Paperback, First)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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This volume reflects Jacques Derrida's engagement in the late 1970s
with French political debates on the teaching of philosophy and the
reform of the French university system. He was a founding member of
the Research Group on the Teaching of Philosophy (Greph), an
activist group that mobilized opposition to the Giscard
government's proposals to "rationalize" the French educational
system in 1975, and a convener of the Estates General of
Philosophy, a vast gathering in 1979 of educators from across
France.
While addressing specific contemporary political issues on
occasion, thus providing insight into the pragmatic deployment of
deconstructive analysis, the essays deal mainly with much broader
concerns. With his typical rigor and spark, Derrida investigates
the genealogy of several central concepts which any debate about
teaching and the university must confront.
Thus there are essays on the "teaching body," both the faculty
"corps" and the strange interplay in the French (but not only the
French) tradition between the mind and body of the professor; on
the question of age in teaching, analyzed through a famous letter
of Hegel; on the class, the classroom, and the socio-economic
concept of class in education; on language, especially so-called
"natural languages" like French; and on the legacy of the
revolutionary tradition, the Estates General, in the university.
The essays are linked by the extraordinary care and precision with
which Derrida undertakes a political intervention into, and a
philosophical analysis of, the institutionalization of philosophy
in the university.
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