back to RS 787 syllabusupdated November 2002
Philosophy - General and Continental / Edmund Husserl and Phenomenology / Martin Heidegger / Jacques
Derrida / Emmanuel Levinas
To research secondary literature on a philosophical topic, consult the following:
Hippias offers a "limited area search" of philosophy websites.
The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy is the association of North American philosophers working in "Continental" (European) thought. Look at the program of its recent annual meeting in Chicago to get a sense of the range of current research in this area.
The American Philosophical Association is the professional association of philosophers in the United States. The Eastern Division meeting will be in Philadelphia on December 27-30.
If you read French, you will want to look at the exhibit on French philosophy in the 1950s prepared by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This gives information on the context which is the immediate background to Derrida's philosophical development--on figures such as Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Kojève, Hyppolite, Lacan, Bataille, Blanchot, on the reception of Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and more.
The question "What Is Phenomenology?" is addressed at the website of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology. See also the Encyclopedia of Phenomenology published by CARP, part of the Reference collection in Mills Library.
There are two noteworthy websites on Edmund Husserl:
Brief biography of Eugen Fink (in German), posted by the Eugen Fink Archive at the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg.
"Ereignis" is a site devoted to Heidegger's life and work.
One of Heidegger's grandsons, Burghard Heidegger, has also begun a rudimentary site in German.
What better way to deepen your thinking about a philosopher than to enter into a conversation with him or her in person? For a time during 2000-2001, Martin Heidegger was appearing on the Montreal-based Dialogus website and entertained questions in French and English. Will someone find a way to bring him back? (To learn more about participating in the Dialogus project, see here.)
A very fine introduction to Derrida's life and work is Geoffrey Bennington, Jacques Derrida (University of Chicago Press) [on reserve for this course].
Jacques Derrida and the Humanities. A Critical Reader, ed. Tom Cohen (Cambridge UP, 2001) [on reserve for this course] is an important new collection of essays on Derrida's work.
Negotiations, ed. and trans. Elizabeth Rottenberg, is a newly published volume of "Interventions and Interviews" dating from 1971 to 2001 (Stanford University Press, 2002).
The most comprehensive Derrida site, "Deconstruction on the Net," was created by Peter Krapp, but it hasn't been updated since 2000.
"Bienvenue chez Jacques Derrida" is a more recent, smaller site by Mohammed Chaouki Zine that is explicitly dedicated to "rendering homage to one of the most esteemed writers and philosophers in the country of his birth: Algeria."
Biographical and bibliographical overview by Eddie Yeghiayan, Bibliographer for Philosophy and Critical Theory at the library of the University of California at Irvine.
Home page of the Centre for Modern French Thought, founded by Geoffrey Bennington, at the University of Sussex.
Materials assembled at Stanford University in preparation for Derrida's lecture there on April 15, 1999.
An article by James E. Faulconer (Philosophy, Brigham Young University) on "Deconstruction." (1998).
Derrida's recent lecture "To Forgive" (1999) is included in the volume Questioning God (Indiana University Press) [book soon to be on reserve] Click on the "FIRST CHAPTER" link to read it now!
"Le Siècle et le pardon," an interview on forgiveness that appeared in Le Monde des Débats in December 1999. Translated into English (minus the interviewer's questions!) as "On Forgiveness" in the recent small book On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (Routledge).
"Jacques Derrida on Rhetoric and Composition: A Conversation" conducted in 1990 by Gary Olson for the journal JAC.
Cardozo Life, a publication of Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University, conducted an interview with Derrida on law in October 1998.
"Khoraographies for Jacques Derrida," a special issue of the on-line journal Tympanum is a collection of articles on him in honor of his 70th birthday, July 15, 2000.
Interview with LA Weekly (November 2002).
Derrida on Film:
An upcoming opportunity to encounter Derrida live:
A good introduction to Levinas's philosophy is Adriaan Peperzak, To the Other (Purdue University Press, 1993) [available for purchase and on reserve]
Emmanuel Levinas Web Page by Peter Atterton of San Diego State University, including information on an upcoming conference,"Emmanuel Levinas in Jerusalem: Philosophical Interpretations and Religious Perspectives" to be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem May 20-23, 2002.
Martin Heidegger et l'ontologie (excerpted) / "Martin Heidegger and Ontology" (1932, published in Diacritics 26.1, Spring 1996, available online to MSU affiliates), Levinas's earliest essay on Heidegger. (To be distinguished from the later, better-known "Is Ontology Fundamental?" (1951].)
full text of "Quelques réflexions sur la philosophie de l'hitlérisme" (1934)
There are some photographs of Levinas in the Picture Album of Phenomenologists compiled by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.
Textual Reasoning is the on-line journal of the Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Network, a (mostly North American) group of scholars interested in contemporary modes of Jewish thought.
New from Cambridge University Press: The Cambridge Companion to Levinas.
On Levinas's Talmudic readings and other "confessional" writings:
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