| Convenor | Minho KIM (Université Paris 8) |
| When | Oct – Nov, 2023 |
| Where | Online meeting (Zoom) https://zoom.us/j/2739110432 |
| What | The aim of these lectures is to provide a new introduction to Derrida’s philosophy with a particular focus on historicity. This is less an explanation of the Derridean understanding of history than a reconstruction of Derrida’s philosophy through the concept of history, which will dispel the misconception that Derrida is a sceptical and relativistic “postmodernist”. For example, with regard to the infamous statement “there is no outside-text,” which is often used to argue that, for Derrida, everything is just a matter of language, if not a matter of arbitrary interpretation, we will understand that, on the contrary, it implies that there is no outside-history, and that the search for “a new type or profundity of historicity” is one of the main threads running through his philosophy. |
Global Intellectual History Unit 