SYLLABUS-IN-PROGRESSRS 787 - SELECTED ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION (Fall 2002) The Philosophy of Jacques Derrida |
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updated November 11, 2002 |
CLASS MEETINGS:Monday, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. University Hall 122 |
Instructor: Dana Hollander Address: Department of Religious Studies, University Hall 109 Tel.: (905) 525-9140, ext. 24759 E-mail: danahol@mcmaster.ca
(please include your phone number) Office Hours: Monday, 2-3 p.m., or e-mail for an appointment |
Course Description / Course Requirements / Schedule
This advanced seminar provides an in-depth introduction to one of the most influential "Continental" philosophers of our time.
In the first half of the course, we will study Derrida's early analyses of Edmund Husserl's theories of history and language, his presentation of "deconstruction" as a theory of language, and his early reception of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
The second half of the course will be devoted to more recent
essays on ethico-political and religious themes.
There is usually more than one way to obtain each reading on this syllabus; these are/will be indicated for each title.
A book order for this class has been placed with Titles, and there are also items on reserve at Mills Library. Check on the status of a title via the MORRIS online catalogue, or look up the reserve list for the class at one of the MORRIS stations in the library.
I am putting on reserve any German and French originals owned by the library of the works we are reading--let me know if there is something I have left out. If there is a title you are looking for that is not owned by the library, please order it via Interlibrary Loan and let me know when you receive it, in case other students also want to have a look at it. I would be happy to assist you in locating particular texts.
In addition, master copies of shorter texts we are reading will be made available in the Religious Studies Department office (UH 104), to use for making personal copies.
Supplementary: Sur parole. Instantanés philosophiques (1999): "De la phénoménologie" [master copy in office]
film screening: Jacques Derrida (Channel 4, 1992)
Supplementary: Simon Glendinning, "Inheriting 'Philosophy': The Case of Austin and Derrida Revisited" from Arguing with Derrida, ed. Glendinning (2001) [book on reserve; master copy of article in office]
Presentation - Colin Koopman
Presentation - Peter Killam
SPECIAL MAKEUP SESSION - Friday, October 4, 4:30-6:30
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Husserl/Derrida, cont'd
Presentation - Leo Stan
Supplementary: Peter Fenves, "Derrida and History" in Tom Cohen (ed.), Jacques Derrida and the Humanities (2001) [master copy in office/book on reserve]
Supplementary: Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and Infinity, and "Dialogue" with Richard Kearney (1984) [photocopy on reserve]
Presentation - Sarah Pelton
(November 25 meeting cancelled due to conflict with AAR Meeting)
Derrida/Kierkegaard/Levinas, cont'd
"How To Avoid Speaking: Denials," in Coward/Foshay (eds.), Derrida and Negative Theology [book available for purchase/on reserve], plus supplementary readings TBA - e.g., by Heidegger ("Phenomenology and Theology," in Pathmarks [book on reserve], "Time and Being" in On Time and Being [book on reserve]?) (and Jean-Luc Marion, selection from God Without Being [book available for purchase/on reserve] or The Idol and Distance [book on reserve]
Supplementary: Robyn Horner, Rethinking God as Gift. Marion, Derrida, and the Limits of Phenomenology (2001) [book on reserve]
Presentation - Jason Robinson
Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money, chaps. 1 and 2 [book available for purchase/on reserve]
debate with Marion (cf. God, the Gift, and Postmodernism [book available for purchase/on reserve])
(possible other reading by Marion and relevant passages in Husserl)
Supplementary: Horner, Rethinking God as Gift.
Presentation - Justin Klassen
REMOVED FROM SCHEDULE: texts on Forgiveness: ("To
Forgive" (1999) in Caputo/Dooley/Scanlon, Questioning God
[book available for purchase/on reserve, or print out from on-line copy];
"On Forgiveness" (1999) in On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness;
Vladimir Jankélévitch, "Should We Pardon Them?" [master copy in
office]
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texts on Hospitality: "Hostipitality" (1997), in Acts of Religion
[book available for purchase/on reserve]; "Step of Hospitality/No
Hospitality" (1996) in Of Hospitality [book available for
purchase/on reserve]; possible additional reading by Levinas.
Supplementary: Sur parole. Instantanés philosophiques (1999): "De l'hospitalité"