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Class Acts looks at two often neglected aspects of Derrida’s work as a philosopher, his public lectures and his teaching, along with the question of the “speech act” that links them, that is, the question of what one is doing when one speaks in public in these ways.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations of Works Cited | xi
Introduction: The Program | 1
Part I: Derrida in Montreal
(A Play in Three Speech Acts )
Argument and Dramatis Personae | 13
Act 1. The Context (1971) | 15
Intermission 1: Glyph 1 | 41
Act 2. The Signature (1979) | 45
Intermission 2: Glyph 2 | 55
Act 3. The Event (1997) | 59
Encore: Cocoon | 69
Part II: The Open Seminar
The Counter-Program (Syllabus) | 75
Class 1. Agrégations: The Chance of Life Death (1975–76) | 93
Class 2. Education in Theory and Practice (1976–77) | 111
Class 3. Grace and the Machine: Perjury and Pardon (1997–98) | 127
Conclusion: Actes de naissance | 149
Acknowledgments | 157
Notes | 159
Index | 183

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 5 October 2021
      ISBN-13 9780823298396
      978-0823298396
      ISBN-10 0823298396
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      Philosophy and theory of education Western philosophy from c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Class Acts looks at two often neglected aspects of Derrida’s work as a philosopher, his public lectures and his teaching, along with the question of the “speech act” that links them, that is, the question of what one is doing when one speaks in public in these ways.

      Table of Contents

      Abbreviations of Works Cited | xi
      Introduction: The Program | 1
      Part I: Derrida in Montreal
      (A Play in Three Speech Acts )
      Argument and Dramatis Personae | 13
      Act 1. The Context (1971) | 15
      Intermission 1: Glyph 1 | 41
      Act 2. The Signature (1979) | 45
      Intermission 2: Glyph 2 | 55
      Act 3. The Event (1997) | 59
      Encore: Cocoon | 69
      Part II: The Open Seminar
      The Counter-Program (Syllabus) | 75
      Class 1. Agrégations: The Chance of Life Death (1975–76) | 93
      Class 2. Education in Theory and Practice (1976–77) | 111
      Class 3. Grace and the Machine: Perjury and Pardon (1997–98) | 127
      Conclusion: Actes de naissance | 149
      Acknowledgments | 157
      Notes | 159
      Index | 183

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