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A suggestion by one of my supervisors sent me back to Derrida’s little essay on cosmopolitanism (an address delivered in 1996 to the International Parliament of Writers). In it Derrida, briefly, schematically, but very lucidly, draws out his thinking on hospitality with respect to the European tradition of cosmopolitanism.
I happened to have a copy of [...]
This is brilliant. I want some shoes of self-consciousness. And a hat like that.
I liked this:
During a meeting of Cornell’s literature department to decide the fate of Nabokov’s tenure, one of the professors objected by saying that allowing a writer to be a part of a literature department is not unlike letting an elephant to be a zookeeper. This is to prove that established professors could still have [...]
Macquarie’s own Vice-Chancellor offered comment on Australia’s history teaching last week. A national curriculum had been proposed, setting Australian history into a world-historical context. ‘Queen of the Humanities’, Schwartz called History – a downgraded cousin of the ‘Queen of the Sciences’ vied over by Philosophy and Theology perhaps, (according to Schwartz’ post, neither are claimants [...]
Francois Cusset’s recently translated book, French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States, has been reviewed in the NDPR by Ethan Kleinberg.
Kleinberg is appreciative (yet with a dash of the critical) – as is expected in any good review. He’s disappointed with the lack of substantial analysis, [...]
Notes for the coming community reflects on the discipline of academia… brilliantly written. Among his reflections, this on Agamben:
…when all is said and done, people will come to realize that today’s greatest thinker is a man who never studied in graduate school; a man who deems his short formal studies as worthless; a man [...]
We’re well into the death throes of something when people start offering their dissections.
Stanley Fish on deconstruction in America. Oh, the comments!
