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Deconstruction

2021/2022
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
3
ECTS credits
Course type:
Elective course
When:
3 year, 4 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

In order to critique deconstruction—one of the major developments of 20th Century philosophy—we must know what it is and how to do it. This course will, therefore, investigate Derrida’s "Politics of Friendship"—and the texts from the history of philosophy which it deconstructs. We will then, call Derrida’s reading into question. Thus, we shall seek to think the politics of friendship itself, both byreferring back to the tradition from the Greeks to Derrida, and forward to contemporary concepts of friendship (with thinkers such as Levinas, Blanchot, Habermas, Nancy, Agamben).
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • To gain an understanding of deconstruction--and to learn how to do it.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Students will learn how to: do deconstruction; to do philosophical research; from this research (reading, thinking), come to establish evidence; from evidence, or its absence, make inferences; test the validity of inferences, come to philosophical intuitions; take those intuitions and develop a thesis; consider the thesis’ validity, and use evidence and reason to construct arguments; test the arguments.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Deconstruction
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Class participation, presentations, questions, discussion.
  • blocking Final Paper
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2021/2022 4th module
    0.5 * Class participation, presentations, questions, discussion. + 0.5 * Final Paper
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Aristotle, & Jonathan Barnes. (2016). Aristotle’s Politics : Writings From the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens. Princeton University Press.
  • Aristotle, Jonathan Barnes, & Anthony Kenny. (2014). Aristotle’s Ethics : Writings From the Complete Works - Revised Edition. Princeton University Press.
  • Aristotle, Woolf, R., & Inwood, B. (2013). Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics. Cambridge University Press.
  • Cicero. (2018). Treatises on Friendship and Old Age. Seltzer Books.
  • Derrida, J., Brault, P.-A., & Naas, M. (2014). For Strasbourg : Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy (Vol. First edition). New York, New York: Fordham University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=953560
  • Diogenes Laërtius. (2018). The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (Classic Reprint). Forgotten Books.
  • Frederich Nietzsche. (2021). Human, All Too Human. Arcturus.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche. (2020). The Gay Science. Dover Publications.
  • Heidegger, M. (2000). Introduction to Metaphysics. Yale University Press.
  • Immanuel Kant. (2020). Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Ale.Mar.
  • Jacques Derrida. (2020). The Politics of Friendship. Verso.
  • Martin Heidegger. (2016). Essays in Metaphysics : Identity and Difference. Philosophical Library/Open Road.
  • Montaigne, M. de, Hazlitt, W. C., & Cotton, C. (2009). Essays. The Floating Press.
  • Nietzsche, F. W. (2009). Thus Spake Zarathustra : A Book for All and None. The Floating Press.
  • Schmitt, C. (2007). The Concept of the Political : Expanded Edition (Vol. Expanded ed). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=332203

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Aristotle, & Irwin, T. (2000). Nicomachean Ethics: Vol. 2nd ed. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Berten André. (2007). David Wood, The Step Back. Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction. Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 105(4), 782–784.
  • Blanchot, M. (2007). Responses and Interventions (1946-98). Paragraph, 30(3), 5–12. https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2007.30.3.5
  • Blanchot, M. (2012). Le « discours philosophique ». Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pupo.1133
  • Blanchot, M., & Nelson, L. (1992). Step Not Beyond, The. SUNY Press.
  • Christopher Norris. (2002). Deconstruction : Theory and Practice: Vol. 3rd ed. Routledge.
  • Critchley, S. (2014). The Ethics of Deconstruction : Derrida and Levinas: Vol. Third edition. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Derrida, J. (2004). The majesty of the present. New German Critique, 91, 17–40.
  • Gregory Jones-Katz. (2021). Deconstruction : An American Institution. University of Chicago Press.
  • Heidegger, M., & Stambaugh, J. (1996). Being and Time : A Translation of Sein Und Zeit. Albany: State University of New York Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=7751
  • Hugh J. Silverman. (1989). Derrida and Deconstruction. Routledge.
  • Jacques Derrida, & Jay Williams. (2013). Signature Derrida. University of Chicago Press Journals.
  • Jacques Derrida, & Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2002). Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to Philosophy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Jacques Derrida. (1971). Le supplément de copule. La philosophie devant la linguistique. Langages, 6(24), 14–39. https://doi.org/10.3406/lgge.1971.2604
  • Jonathan Culler. (2007). On Deconstruction : Theory and Criticism After Structuralism: Vol. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. Cornell University Press.
  • Martin Heidegger. (2018). Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (Classic Reprint). Forgotten Books.
  • Martin McQuillan. (2007). The Politics of Deconstruction : Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy. Pluto Press.
  • McQuillan, M., & Protevi, J. (2001). Deconstruction. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Menke, C. (2011). The Self-Reflection of Law and the Politics of Rights. Constellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory, 18(2), 124–134. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8675.2011.00637.x
  • Rancière, Richard Stamp, Michel Foucault, & Jacques Derrida. (n.d.). The Torsion of Politics and Friendship in Derrida, Foucault. Http://Www.Borderlands.Net.Au/Vol8no2_2009/Stamp_torsion.Pdf.
  • Rodolphe Gasché. (2016). Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence : Together with “Have We Done with the Empire of Judgment?” SUNY Press.
  • Silverman, H. J. (1991). Writing the Politics of Difference. SUNY Press.
  • Susanne Lüdemann. (2014). Politics of Deconstruction : A New Introduction to Jacques Derrida. Stanford University Press.
  • Turner, L. (2013). The Animal Question in Deconstruction. Edinburgh University Press.