Jacques Derrida and the Humanities : A Critical Reader (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; Preface; Biographical chronology; Introduction; 1. The future of the profession, or the university without condition (thanks to the 'humanities', What Could Happen tomorrow) Jacques Derrida; 2. Derrida's literatures J. Hillis Miller; 3. The other sexual difference Peggy Kamuf; 4. Lemming: re-framing the Abyss David Wills; 5. Mimesis, presentation, and representation Marian Hobson; 6. Acts of engagement (philosophy in the performative) Chris Fynsk; 7. Hospitable thought Hent de Vries; 8. Derrida and politics Geoff Bennington; 9. Legitimate fictions Margaret Davies; 10. Fidelity at the limits of deconstruction and the prosthesis of faith Bernard Stiegler; 11. Wondering about history: some questions Derrida pursues in his early writings Peter Fenves; 12. Desistantial psychoanalysis Rene Major; Glossary David Wills.