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Now, more than ever, there is an obligation to recognize the presence of the infinite possibilities and multiple horizons of alterity, which destabilize the grounding of subjectivity and our knowledge about what it means to be human. This responsibility highlights the problem of exposing or creating locations for otherness within communitarian-based institutions such as the university, which still occupy the colonized space of traditional knowledge archives and are at the same time alterior to the logic of the status quo simply by producing new forms of knowledge and blazing trails of discovery that change the disciplines.1 If so, how and where are gestures toward the spaces of these new locations enacted within the human sciences by which we define the difference of ourselves as another?
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See Jacques Derrida, “Ou commence et comment finit un corps enseignant,” in Du droit à la philosophie, (1990), pp. 111–153.
Jacques Derrida (Fall 1983). “The principle of reason: The university in the eyes of its pupils.” Diacritics, 11.
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Jacques Derrida (1992). TheOtherHeading:Reflections ofToday’sEurope. Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), p. 41.
Jacques Derrida (1978). “Violence and metaphysics: An essay on the thought of Emmanuel Levinas,” in Alan Bass (tram.), Writing andDifference (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), p. 80.
Gianni Vattimo (1988). The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postodern Culture. Translated by Jon R. Snyder (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press), p. 172.
See Rodolphe Gasche (1994). Inventions of Difference: On Jacques Derrida (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
The “Roundtable discussion” on Jacques Derrida’s “Des humanites et de la discipline philosophiques”/“Of the humanities and philosophical disciplines” in Surfaces Vol. VI.108 (v.1.0A-16/08/1996), 5–40 involved Hazard Adams, Ernst Behler, Hendrick Birus, Jacques Derrida, Wolfgang Iser, Ludwig Pfeiffer, Bill Readings, Ching-hsien Wang, and Pauline Yu. All further quotations from this text are comments made by Derrida.The page references are from the website version of the text to found at http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/guedon/Surfaces/vo16/derrida.html.This endnote refers to a quotation from page 3.
Ibid., p. 3.
Ibid., p. 3.
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Trifonas, P.P. (2005). Ourselves as Another: Cosmopolitical Humanities. In: Trifonas, P.P., Peters, M.A. (eds) Deconstructing Derrida. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980649_11
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