Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Jacques Derrida's Cambridge Affair : Deconstruction, Philosophy and Institutionality, Hardback Book

Jacques Derrida's Cambridge Affair : Deconstruction, Philosophy and Institutionality Hardback

Part of the Futures of the Archive series

Hardback

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks

Description

What is philosophy? A question often asked, but usually in an abstract or speculative way.

Rarely do we find a case of 'philosophy' being determined in the real world.

However, at Cambridge in 1992, this is exactly what happened, as a debate took place over the merits, or otherwise, of awarding an Honorary Doctorate of Letters to the philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Derrida's supporters argued that his deconstruction of Western traditions of thinking ushered in an important new manner of doing philosophy; his detractors dismissed his work as charlatanism, philistinism - and non-philosophy.

As arguments raged over the validity of introducing the canon of Continental philosophy to the Humanities in British Higher Education - the so-called 'Theory Wars' - Derrida's 'Cambridge Affair' focalized this decisive conflict more than anything else.

This is the first study of the Cambridge Affair. Drawing upon archival and unpublished material, little-known texts pertaining to the Affair, and Derrida's own oeuvre, this original account offers an historical and philosophical reconstruction of this crucial debate, evaluating it against the body of work it put on trial.

Information

Other Formats

£108.00

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information

Also in the Futures of the Archive series  |  View all

The Labour of Subjectivity

£129.00

Add to Basket

The Aesthetics of Violence

£112.00

Add to Basket

Ontology and Perversion

£112.00

Add to Basket

The Aesthetics of Violence

£37.00

£32.95

Add to Basket