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    Derrida and Education
    In Zeynep Direk & Leonard Lawlor (eds.), A Companion to Derrida, Wiley. 2014.
    Derrida lived almost his entire life attached to educational institutions, his work was received across the globe predominantly in the academy, and he was politically and philosophically preoccupied with issues related to teaching and educational institutions for a decade. The author uses these two events to organize his presentation of the main themes in Derrida's discussions of education. With two opponents, themselves opposed, Groupe de recherches sur l’enseignement philosophique (GREPH) and …Read more
  • 8. A Petty Pedagogy?
    In Samir Haddad, Penelope Deutscher & Olivia Custer (eds.), Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later: The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics, Columbia University Press. pp. 133-148. 2016.
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    Introduction
    In Samir Haddad, Penelope Deutscher & Olivia Custer (eds.), Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later: The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics, Columbia University Press. 2016.
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    Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction, by Olivia Custer, Penelope Deutscher, and Samir Haddad -- Part I: Openings -- 1. The Foucault-Derrida Debate on the Argument Concerning Madness and Dreams, by Pierre Macherey -- 2. Looking Back at History of Madness, by Lynne Huffer -- 3. Violence and Hyperbole: From "Cogito and the History of Madness" to The Death Penalty, by Michael Naas -- Part II: Surviving the Philosophical Problem: History Crosses Transcendental Analysi…Read more
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    In this essay I examine Derrida’s attempts to transform how philosophy is conceived, specifically as this occurs in his writings on education. In these writings Derrida challenges two understandings of philosophy—in his interventions into debates on lycée education he targets philosophy in France, while in texts related to the founding of the Collège International de Philosophie at stake is philosophy understood as a broader European institution. I argue that in each case key in Derrida’s challe…Read more
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    In this essay I examine Derrida’s attempts to transform how philosophy is conceived, specifically as this occurs in his writings on education. In these writings Derrida challenges two understandings of philosophy—in his interventions into debates on lycée education he targets philosophy in France, while in texts related to the founding of the Collège International de Philosophie at stake is philosophy understood as a broader European institution. I argue that in each case key in Derrida’s challe…Read more
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    Examining Genealogy as Engaged Critique
    Foucault Studies 1 (28): 4-9. 2020.
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    Derrida on responsibility in the university
    Anuario Filosófico. forthcoming.
    In this essay I examine Derrida’s proposal for a new understanding of responsibility in the university, as it is articulated in “Mochlos, or The Confl ict of the Faculties,” together with remarks made in “The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of its Pupils” and “The University Without Condition”. I argue that this account of responsibility, while sharing some characteristics with Derrida’s later theorizations, enacts an inheritance of Kant and places an emphasis on community that i…Read more
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    Derrida's Rethinking of Professorial Authority
    Journal of the American Philosophical Association 3 (4): 430-445. 2017.
    ABSTRACT:In this paper I argue that Derrida's writings on education contain a profound rethinking of professorial authority. I first outline the sources of professorial authority and describe how they were traditionally conceived in France at the time when Derrida was working. I then show how Derrida challenges and transforms these sources, focusing in particular on a new relation to knowledge, a new relation to the state, and a new understanding of charisma that emerge from his work.
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    Shared Learning and The Ignorant Schoolmaster
    Philosophy of Education 71 175-182. 2015.
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    More than a Mother Tongue
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 41 (2): 469-487. 2020.
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    More than a Language to Come
    Philosophy Today 64 (2): 379-394. 2020.
    In this paper I demonstrate that the analysis supporting Derrida’s identification of the desire for a pure, originary idiom in Heidegger’s reading of Trakl in Geschlecht III provides a framework with which we can understand the call for a new language in Monolingualism of the Other. While acknowledging how his interpretation of Heidegger provides important insights that guide Derrida’s later negotiation with the dual dangers of nationalism and colonialism, I argue that the proximity to Heidegger…Read more
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    Derrida on Language and Philosophical Education
    Studies in Philosophy and Education 40 (2): 149-163. 2020.
    The relationship between national languages and schooling is a recurring theme in Derrida’s writings on education, playing an important role in the challenge he mounts to traditional understandings of the French State’s involvement in the teaching of philosophy. In this essay, I follow this thread of thinking across several of Derrida’s texts, paying specific attention to his diagnoses of positions arguing for a universal philosophical language on the one hand, and those elevating French as the …Read more
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    Leonard Lawlor’s Renewal of Thinking
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 56 (3): 393-402. 2018.
    In this paper I analyze Leonard Lawlor’s strategy of inheriting from the tradition, highlighting the way he traces and amplifies a series of conceptual transformations that take place across twentieth-century continental philosophy. Focusing on the particular movement from metaphysics to ethics enacted in From Violence to Speaking Out, I raise three concerns regarding Lawlor’s ethics of “the least violence,” arguing that there is a problem with a quantitative understanding of this notion, that t…Read more
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    Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy
    Indiana University Press. 2013.
    Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy provides a theoretically rich and accessible account of Derrida's political philosophy. Demonstrating the key role inheritance plays in Derrida’s thinking, Samir Haddad develops a general theory of inheritance and shows how it is essential to democratic action. He transforms Derrida’s well-known idea of "democracy to come" into active engagement with democratic traditions. Haddad focuses on issues such as hospitality, justice, normativity, violence, frien…Read more
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    Review of James K. A. Smith, Jacques Derrida: Live Theory (review)
    Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (8). 2006.
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    Arendt, Derrida, and the Inheritance of Forgiveness
    Philosophy Today 51 (4): 416-426. 2007.
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    Inheriting Democracy to Come
    Theory and Event 8 (1). 2005.
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    Teaching without Mastery
    Rue Descartes 82 (3): 65-67. 2014.
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    A Genealogy of Violence, from Light to the Autoimmune
    Diacritics 38 (1): 121-142. 2008.
    This essay explores the treatment of violence in Derrida's ethico-political work, stressing the underlying continuity of Derrida's thinking of politics, from his first reading of Levinas to one of the last notions he developed, autoimmunity. Haddad analyzes the use to which the idea of a “lesser violence” has been put, arguing that it is incompatible with Derrida's other claims.
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    Pedagogy and Plurality in the Work of Michèle Le Dœuff
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 30 (3): 414-424. 2016.
    My aim in this article is to analyze and extend Michèle Le Dœuff’s work on philosophy’s exclusionary practices, examining and enhancing both her diagnosis of the problem and how philosophy might be transformed. I proceed in three steps. First, I briefly outline the main features of Le Dœuff’s account of the reasons for the exclusion of women from philosophy. Le Dœuff’s focus is on the structure of philosophical pedagogy and its implications for the philosophical imaginary. Second, I examine Le D…Read more
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    Why Arendt Matters—Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 47 (3): 375-377. 2007.
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    Citizenship and the Ambivalence of Birth
    Derrida Today 4 (2): 173-193. 2011.
    In this paper I examine the meaning of birth in the work of Agamben, Esposito, and Derrida, paying particular attention to how it operates in their analyses of citizenship and national belonging. I show that Agamben views birth as negative, Esposito proposes a positive conception, and Derrida's writings imply an understanding that is ambivalent. Then, by focusing on the phenomenon of multiple citizenship, I argue for the value of the Derridean view.
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    Reading Derrida Reading Derrida: Deconstruction as Self‐Inheritance
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 14 (4): 505-520. 2006.
    Derrida argued at great length early on in his career that texts live on in the absence of their author. The question remains, however, of precisely how this survival takes place. In this paper I argue that the life of Derrida’s own œuvre is sustained through his particular practice of self‐inheritance. I justify this claim by focusing on one moment in the text Rogues: Two Essays on Reason, in which Derrida inherits from himself through self‐citation. In citing himself while at the same time mod…Read more