Description
Book SynopsisClass 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 ContentsAbbreviations 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
