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• Derrida and the task of academic theology

  
  (Ir)religiosity — Authority: 100
  Philosophy, as logocentrism, is present in every scientific discipline and the only justification for transforming philosophy into a specialized discipline is the necessity to render explicit and thematic the philosophical subtext in every discourse. The principal function which the teaching of philosophy serves is to ...
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• Franz Kafka and Philosophy Workshop: 2010

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 134
  A call for papers has been announced for an upcoming academic workshop on philosophy in the work of Franz Kafka, to be held in August 2010. The workshop is part of a larger conference on  Thought in Science and Fiction  organized by Cankaya University in Turkey, and aims to consider various conceptions of the ...
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• Cyborg, Hauntology, Spectrality and the Bible

  
  The Dunedin School — Authority: 496
  The Bible does not exist as such. In opposition to the question, “Why drag the Bible in on a subject [Cyborgs, Hauntology, and Spectrality] with which it has absolutely no concern?” , I could ask, “What makes you think the Bible exists – except as hauntology – as that which haunts some current discourse, ...
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• Diacritics 38.1-2 Derrida and Democracy

  
  Continental Philosophy — Authority: 116
  Diacritics 38.1-2 Derrida and Democracy Eds. Jonathan Culler and Phillip E. Lewis Derrida and Democracy Jonathan Culler Part One “The Most Interesting Thing in the World” Jonathan Culler Passionate Secrets and Democratic Dissidence David Wills Signed Paine, or Panic in Literature Peggy Kamuf Pulsations of ...
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• The fall of the Berlin Wall: 20 years later

  
  Sherryx's Weblog — Authority: 460
  With capitalism facing its worse crisis after 1929, the imperialists powers are gathering in Germany to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall. As like always, history has different meanings for the elites and imperialists and the people. The imperialists hailed it has the triumph of democracy and freedom, the fall of ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908-2009

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 134
  While I was away this week, I was surprised to hear the news that anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss has passed away. My own interests are anthropological only in the loosest sense, but the influence of Lévi-Strauss became massively influential across a broad range of cultural academic disciplines: The fame of ...
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• Three names

  
  Working notes — Authority: 482
  Ive been wanting to write a post on Jameson for a while, since Ive been wading through his immense corpus over the last month or two. This wont be that post. Rather, I just want to give a little review of a few chapters of his new book, Valences of the Dialectic, which came out Sunday, the first of the month.The first ...
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• Sting Like a Bee, Write Like Dan Brown

  
  Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog — Authority: 129
    There is nothing so likely to cause the flag of conspiracy theory to fly over the castle of your writing ambitions and intentions as the appearance at great hoopla and subsequent sale of a truly remarkably awful book by a person who has little or no writing skills. Even when you were receiving regular paychecks ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) -...

  
  chacal does tumblng — Authority: 134
  Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com A powerful thinker, Mr. Lévi-Strauss was an avatar of “structuralism,” a school of thought in which universal “structures” were believed to underlie all human activity, giving shape to seemingly disparate cultures and creations. His work was a ...
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• Latour v. Derrida

  
  Working notes — Authority: 482
  Over at my Latour reading group blog, I explain that wonderful first thesis of "Irreductions"--nothing is, by itself, either reducible or irreducible to anything else--and say the following:In other words, Latour is saying that nothing is singular (irreducible) because it always needs others. Derrida would say ...
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• From the Archives: Claude Levi-Strauss

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 151
  French social anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss died over the weekend at the age of 100.  His theory of structuralism was a major influence on such titans of philosophy as Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. Back in 1967, TNRs  Patrick Gallagher reviewed his seminal work The Savage Mind , which sought to ...
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• Two items: sex SF and Galilée

  
  Foucault blog — Authority: 121
  Two quick items today:Gai pied hebdo (a name supposedly suggested by Foucault and a pun on guêpier or hornet’s nest according to Wikipedia; hebdo = “weekly” in French) published an interview with MF “Friendship as a way of life” (DE #293). Sex SF, a blog from the San Francisco Bay Guardian, has a piece ...
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• Jacques Derrida – Fear Of Writing

  
  Science Fiction Buzz Blog — Authority: 151
  Fall of the film "Derrida" (2002)   Mail this post Technorati Tags: Derrida , fear , Jacques , writing
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• Love and finitude

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 510
  But what if all that stuff about “kissing the joy as it flies”, which I wrote about some time ago here (see “The pragmatics of love”), just does not seem to work, or work out, and despite all one’s attempts to do justice to one’s beloved — albeit within the inescapable limits of one’s humanity [...]
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• Pam Fox-Kuhlken and Bill Nericcio on Jacques Derrida and Interdisciplinary Studies @ SDSU! A MALAS Lecture, November 3, 2009

  
  Tex[t]-Mex — Authority: 436
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• Why read Derrida?

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 134
  An excerpt from Nicholas Royles excellent  Jacques Derrida : [Derrida] is an extraordinarily precise and faithful reader. In a quite disarming way, Derridas readings [...] can often appear to be just describing what is happening in that text. If we wanted or rather if we were able to stop things there, this alone ...
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• xavecy

  
  entschwindet und vergeht — Authority: 462
  This would be a particularly brutal caricature, yet it nevertheless contains a grain of truth: there is indeed an undeniable respect in which Derrida (along with Heidegger) and to a lesser extent Deleuze (along with Nietzsche) provide the most immediate reference points for understanding Laruelle’s thought, in which ...
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• On the difficulty of reading Derrida

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 134
  From Catherine Belseys superb introduction to poststructuralism: Q. Derrida is very hard to read. Why doesnt he write more simply? Doesnt he want to communicate? A. There are three reasons why we have difficulty reading Derrida. The first is that he is a (Continental) philosopher, with a range of reference that ...
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• Open Yale Courses: Theories of Literature

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 134
  Mike Johnduff at Working Notes has drawn attention to a series of free lectures offered at the Open Yale Courses website. The lectures, presented by Professor Paul H. Fry, comprise an Introduction to Theory of Literature , and include class sessions on some of the key concerns of contemporary critical theory. ...
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