Title: Derrida, deconstruction, and the politics of pedagogy /
Authors: Peters, Michael 1948-; Biesta, Gert.
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Derrida, Jacques; Deconstruction.; Education
Abstract: "With an up-to-date synopsis, review, and critique of his writings, this book demonstrates Jacques Derrida's almost singular power to reconceptualize and reimagine the humanities, and examines his humanism in relation to politics and pedagogy."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction: The promise of politics and pedagogy / Michael A. Peters and Gert Biesta -- Deconstruction, justice, and the vocation of education / Gert Biesta -- Derrida as a profound humanist / Michael A. Peters -- Derrida, Nietzsche, and the return to the subject / Michael A. Peters -- From critique to deconstruction : Derrida as a critical philosopher / Gert Biesta -- Education after deconstruction : between event and invention / Gert Biesta -- The university and the future of the humanities / Michael A. Peters -- Welcome! postscript on hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and the other / Michael A. Peters.