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This series will examine four distinct ways whereby the Other becomes a decisive philosophical event: as presence, as plurality, as ethical asymmetry, and as structural difference.
Each session focuses on one thinker and one conceptual pathway, presented by a brave member of our community—currently experiencing performance anxiety about presenting to a group of critical Others. But they have no need to worry, because Jedi Master Professor Steven Taubeneck will be on hand to answer the hard hard questions and prevent us from cheating, lying, fabricating, speculating, and bluffing.
This generic placeholder description will be updated once our courageous presenters send in their outlines. For now, mark your calendars, join the discussion, and prepare for a series that explores how twentieth-century thought reconceived relation, responsibility, and alterity at the deepest and most disquieting levels.
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JACQUES DERRIDA (1930 – 2004)
Our EIGHTH event in the Jewish Thinkers of Otherness series covers Jacques Derrida. Derrida’s work falls into four periods:
For this meeting—on Derrida, “Part 2”—I would like to consider two texts from the later part of his career. Both texts are available on the THORR site. Please have a look at them before our meeting.
The first, “Of an apocalyptic tone recently raised in philosophy,” was a paper given in 1980 in response to Kant’s “Of an overlordly tone recently adopted in philosophy” (“Von einem neuerdings erhobenen vornehmen Ton in der Philosophie,” 1796). Kant had criticized the tone of recent writings in philosophy, and Derrida used the occasion to develop a similar critique of Heidegger and Levinas, on their relation to the apocalypse of St. John.
The second text, Monolingualism of the Other, or the Prosthesis of the Origin, is from 1996. In this, one of his more extended accounts of his own life, he describes what it was like to grow up speaking the language of the colonizer (French) within the context of the colonized (Algeria).
| Period | Year Span | Title |
|---|---|---|
| I | 1954–67 | “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” (1967) |
| II | 1967–80 | “White Mythology: Metaphor in the Text of Philosophy” (1971) |
| ”Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: An Essay on Derrida” (1978) | ||
| III | 1980–94 | “Of an apocalyptic tone recently raised in philosophy” (1983) |
| IV | 1994–2004 | Monolingualism of the Other, or, the Prosthesis of Origin (1996) |
Our episode today will cover periods III and IV. To prepare for today’s episode, please read the following great overview of Derrida’s work: Jacques Derrida: 1930–2004 a Critical Appreciation.
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