Deconstructing Derrida: Tasks for the New Humanities

by Michael A. Peters and Peter Pericles Trifonas Michael Peterson

Book Overview

Responding to Jacques Derrida's vision for what a 'new' humanities should strive toward, Peter Trifonas and Michael Peters gather together in a single volume original essays by major scholars in the humanities today. Using Derrida's seven programmatic theses as a springboard, the contributors aim to reimagine, as Derrida did, the tasks for the new humanities in such areas as history of literature, history of democracy, history of profession, idea...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312296118
• ISBN13: 9780312296117
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.3"