European philosophy - introduction - derrida & french philosophy

Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College

Vocational qualification

In Richmond upon Thames

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    Vocational qualification

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    Richmond upon thames

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    Different dates available

Course Overview:
Twentieth century Philosophy was marked by a number of far-reaching challenges to its own history. This course starts by considering the contribution made by Jacques Derrida — the enfant terrible of 1960’s French thought. We’ll see how his unique role begins in Heidegger’s Destruktion of the subject and trace the ways in which his own position, Deconstruction, developed into a maddening engagement with its own past.

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Richmond upon Thames (London)
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  • Politics
  • Secondary
  • Philosophy
  • Painting
  • Writing
  • Aesthetics
  • Truth
  • European philosophy
  • French
  • French Philosophy

Course programme

Course Content:
Week 1: Derrida’s beginnings: Husserl


Week 2: Destruktion and a New Philosophy


Week 3: Derrida’s French roots 1: Sartre and Humanism


Week 4: Derrida’s French roots 2: Foucault and Madness


Week 5: Derrida’s French roots 3: Levinas


Week 6: Of Grammatology: The beginning of Deconstruction


Week 7: Derrida at the summit: Signature, Event, Context


Week 8: Derrida at the end: The Gift of Death


Week 9: Painting Derrida: Kant, Aesthetics, and The Truth in Painting


Week 10: What next? French Philosophy after Derrida



Suggested readings:

As ever, all readings will be provided.

There is a huge number of secondary texts dealing with Derrida’s thought — a testament to his influence. Not many of them are of interest to us. What follows is a brief list, but be careful, many commentators cannot resist the temptation to slip into a (usually poor) impersonation of Derrida’s own ‘style’. I’ve tried to steer clear of (some of) the worst offenders.




(some of)Derrida’s texts


Margins of Philosophy



Of Grammatology



Writing and Difference



Limited Inc.


Secondary texts


Hermeneutics as Politics, Stanley Rosen. OUP1987


Arguing with Derrida, ed. Simon Glendinning. Blackwell 2001


Structuralism and Since: from Levi Strauss to Derrida, John Sturrock. OPUS 1980


Derrida: A Very Short Introduction, Simon Glendinning. OUP 2011




Week 1: Derrida’s beginnings: Husserl


Week 2: Destruktion and a New Philosophy


Week 3: Derrida’s French roots 1: Sartre and Humanism


Week 4: Derrida’s French roots 2: Foucault and Madness


Week 5: Derrida’s French roots 3: Levinas


Week 6: Of Grammatology: The beginning of Deconstruction


Week 7: Derrida at the summit: Signature, Event, Context


Week 8: Derrida at the end: The Gift of Death


Week 9: Painting Derrida: Kant, Aesthetics, and The Truth in Painting


Week 10: What next? French Philosophy after Derrida



Suggested readings:

As ever, all readings will be provided.

There is a huge number of secondary texts dealing with Derrida’s thought — a testament to his influence. Not many of them are of interest to us. What follows is a brief list, but be careful, many commentators cannot resist the temptation to slip into a (usually poor) impersonation of Derrida’s own ‘style’. I’ve tried to steer clear of (some of) the worst offenders.




(some of)Derrida’s texts


Margins of Philosophy



Of Grammatology



Writing and Difference



Limited Inc.


Secondary texts


Hermeneutics as Politics, Stanley Rosen. OUP1987


Arguing with Derrida, ed. Simon Glendinning. Blackwell 2001


Structuralism and Since: from Levi Strauss to Derrida, John Sturrock. OPUS 1980


Derrida: A Very Short Introduction, Simon Glendinning. OUP 2011




Week 1: Derrida’s beginnings: Husserl


Week 2: Destruktion and a New Philosophy


Week 3: Derrida’s French roots 1: Sartre and Humanism


Week 4: Derrida’s French roots 2: Foucault and Madness


Week 5: Derrida’s French roots 3: Levinas


Week 6: Of Grammatology: The beginning of Deconstruction


Week 7: Derrida at the summit: Signature, Event, Context


Week 8: Derrida at the end: The Gift of Death


Week 9: Painting Derrida: Kant, Aesthetics, and The Truth in Painting


Week 10: What next? French Philosophy after Derrida



Suggested readings:

As ever, all readings will be provided.

There is a huge number of secondary texts dealing with Derrida’s thought — a testament to his influence. Not many of them are of interest to us. What follows is a brief list, but be careful, many commentators cannot resist the temptation to slip into a (usually poor) impersonation of Derrida’s own ‘style’. I’ve tried to steer clear of (some of) the worst offenders.




(some of)Derrida’s texts


Margins of Philosophy



Of Grammatology



Writing and Difference



Limited Inc.


Secondary texts


Hermeneutics as Politics, Stanley Rosen. OUP1987


Arguing with Derrida, ed. Simon Glendinning. Blackwell 2001


Structuralism and Since: from Levi Strauss to Derrida, John Sturrock. OPUS 1980


Derrida: A Very Short Introduction, Simon Glendinning. OUP 2011



















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