Jacques Derrida and the Humanities

A Critical Reader

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Edited by Tom Cohen

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published January 2002, 325 pages, paper

ISBN 0521625653

This volume is a trans-disciplinary collection dedicated to Derrida's work. The assembled contributions--on law, literature, ethics, gender, politics and psychoanalysis--constitute an investigation of the role of Derrida's work in the humanities, present and future. The volume is distinguished by work on some of his most recent writings, and contains Derrida's own address on "the future of the humanities."

Contributors: Jacques Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, Peggy Kamuf, David Wills, Marian Hobson, Chris Fynsk, Hent de Vries, Geoff Bennington, Margaret Davies, Bernard Stiegler, Peter Fenves, René Major

Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface; Biographical chronology
 Introduction
1. The future of the profession, or the university without condition (thanks to the humanitiesâ What Could Happen tomorrow)--Jacques Derrida
2. Derrida's literatures--J. Hillis Miller
3. The other sexual difference--Peggy Kamuf
4. Lemming: re-framing the Abyss--David Wills
5. Mimesis, presentation, and representation--Marian Hobson
6. Acts of engagement (philosophy in the performative)--Chris Fynsk
7. Hospitable thought--Hent de Vries
8. Derrida and politics--Geoff Bennington
9. Legitimate fictions--Margaret Davies
10. Fidelity at the limits of deconstruction and the prosthesis of faith--Bernard Stiegler
11. Wondering about history: some questions Derrida pursues in his early writings--Peter Fenves
12. Desistantial psychoanalysis--René Majo
Glossary--David Wills.