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Altering the material conditions of access to the humanities

John Willinsky

pp. 118-136

Abstract

This chapter enters this book through a side door, parenthetically left ajar by Derrida in his contribution to this collection—"(Although I must leave this aside …)"—as if space and time did not permit him to open the issue more than a crack, even as he names it "one of the most serious questions that is posed, and posed here, between the university and the politico-economic outside of its public space" (p. 234). This questionable space is, for Derrida, "the marketplace in publishing and the role it plays in archivisation, evaluation, legitimation of academic research," and it lies for him, in this case at least, entirely within closed brackets (pp. 234–235).

Publication details

Published in:

Pericles Trifonas Peter, Peters Michael A. (2005) Deconstructing Derrida: tasks for the new humanities. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 118-136

DOI: 10.1057/9781403980649_8

Full citation:

Willinsky John (2005) „Altering the material conditions of access to the humanities“, In: P. Pericles Trifonas & M. A. Peters (eds.), Deconstructing Derrida, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 118–136.