Reading List

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For All Three Weeks

Derrida, “Plato’s Pharmacy,” in Dissemination, trans. Barbara Johnson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 63-119 [“La pharmacie de Platon,” in La dissémination (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1972), 71-198].

Derrida, “Khōra,” trans. Ian McLeod, in On the Name, ed. Thomas Dutoit (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), 89-127 [Khôra (Paris: Galilée, 1993)].

Week 1, John Sallis, “Derrida, Heidegger, and the Greeks”

Plato, Phaedrus: recommended translation, Stephen Scully (Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2003): ISBN: 0-941051-54-4.

Plato, Timaeus: recommended translation, Peter Kalkavage (Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2001): ISBN: 1-58510-007-2.

Derrida, Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989) [De l’esprit: Heidegger et la question (Paris: Galilée, 1987)].

1st lecture - Of Spirit, chap. 2, pp. 7-13; and note 5 of chap. 9, pp. 129-36.
2nd lecture - "Plato's Pharmacy," chap. 9, pp. 156-71; and various passages in the Phaedrus.
3rd lecture - Derrida, Khōra (entire text); and Timaeus 47e-52d

Week 2, Geoffrey Bennington, “Reading Writing”

Derrida, “Outwork, prefacing,” Dissemination, 1-61 [“Hors livre, préfaces,” La dissémination, 7-67].

Derrida, “The Double Session,” Part I, Dissemination, 175-227 [“La double séance,” La dissémination, 199-255].

Students are also encouraged to read the section of Of Grammatology entitled “The Exorbitant: Question of Method” [De la grammotologie (Paris: Minuit, 1967)]

Week 3, Len Lawlor, “Animals and Rogues”

Derrida, Aporias, trans. Thomas Dutoit(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993) [Apories (Paris: Galilée, 1996)].

Derrida, Rogues, trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005) [Voyous (Paris: Editions Galilée, 2003].

Derrida, “Heidegger’s Hands (Geschlecht II)” (1985), trans. John P. Leavey, Jr., in Deconstruction and Philosophy, ed. John Sallis (University of Chicago Press, 1987), 161-196 [French in Psyché (Paris: Galilée, 1987), 415-451].

Derrida, “The Animal that (therefore) I am,” trans. David Wills, Critical Inquiry 28 (winter 2002): 369-418; “And Say the Animal Respond,” trans. David Wills, in Zoontologies, edited by Cary Wolfe (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 121-145 [The French versions of both texts are in L’animal que donc je suis (Galilée, 2006)].

Lecture 1: “Plato’s Pharmacy,” especially Chapter 6, and pp. 126-8; “The Ends of Man,” in Margins of Philosophy, opening and closing sections; “The Animal that Therefore I am,” pp. 392-398; “Faith and Knowledge,” in Religion (Stanford), pp. 35-53 (paragraphs 34-42), p. 65 (paragraph 50); Rogues, pp. 154-159, 100-107; Of Spirit, pp. 39-40. The paragraph numbers to “Faith and Knowledge” should allow you to find the corresponding page numbers its edition in Acts of Religion (Routledge).

Lecture 2: “Heidegger’s Hand (Geschlecht 2),” in Deconstruction and Philosophy; “Awaiting (at) the Arrival,” in Aporias, especially pp. 62-72; Memoirs for Paul DeMan, pp. 139-142; Of Spirit, chapter 6. There will also be assorted references to “And Say the Animal Responded,” in Zoontologies (Minnesota), and to the entire L’Animal que donc je suis, the final page for instance, p. 219; also to Chapters 5 and 6 of Speech and Phenomena, and to “How to Avoid Speaking,” in Languages of the Unsayable, pp. 17-18.

Lecture 3: “The Animal that Therefore I am,” pp. 372-382, p. 407n29; Of Spirit, note 5 of chap. 9, pp. 129-36; “Faith and Knowledge,” in Religion (Stanford), pp. 59-65 (paragraphs 48-49); “And Say the Animal Responded,” in Zoontologies (Minnesota), pp. 136-138; “Awaiting (at) the Arrival,” in Aporias, especially pp. 62-72 (again); Rogues, pp. 83-84, 155; “Rams,” in Sovereignties in Question (Fordham), pp. 156-163. There will also be assorted references to L’Animal que donc je suis, especially to the pages concerning the homonymic interplay between “être” and “suivre”; see index for “suivre.”

Prof. Lawler has also prepared an index (pdf, 72kb) for the course readings.