ASRC 6515 - Derrida In/And Africa

(crosslisted) ENGL 6972

Spring. 4 credits.

G. Farred.

From the late-1970s on, the Algerian-born philosopher Jacques Derrida began to be much troubled by his African past. Reading Derrida as an African, reading for the African in Derrida, in, we might say, deconstruction, might find its apogee in Monolingualism, Or, the Prosthesis of the Other, but this course will “trace” the moment of African articulation in Derrida to both earlier moments and other texts, including Specters of Marx, and The Other Heading.