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In the current context of globalization1 and sociopolitical conflicts, and of an increasingly bureaucratic approach to education through a business or industrial model, rights to Humanities education and the teaching of the Humanities take a new dimension and urgency, and present new challenges. Grounding this reflection in a reading of Derrida, I propose to explore the notion of heritage of a cultural memory before arguing the necessity of a right to the Humanities, and then I address the concurrent call for responsibility. The last section looks toward the concept of Humanities-to-come, and what Derrida calls “a profession of faith.”
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Paul Valèry (1960). “Notes sur la grandeur et la decadence de l’Europe,” in Oeuvres Completes, vol. 2 (Paris: Pleiade), p. 1089. Denise Folliot and Jackson Matthews (trans.) (1962). “Notes on the greatness and decline of Europe,” in History and Politics (NewYork: Bollingen), p. 200.
Ibid., p. 1089/200.
Ibid., p.1090/201.
Ibid., p. 1090/201
Ibid., p. 1090/201.
Ibid., p. 1091/202.
Jacques Derrida (1992). TheOtherHeading:Reflections onToday’sEurope. Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael B. Naas (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press), pp. 12–13.
Ibid., p. 70.
Jacques Derrida, “Cultures et dépendences-Special Jacques Derrida.” Presented by Franz-Olivier Giesbert, with the participation of Elizabeth Levy Charles Pepin, Daniel Schick, and Séverine Werba (France 3 Television, May 2002).Translated by Denise Egea-Kuehne; not available in print.
Jacques Derrida and Elizabeth Roudinesco (2001). De quoi demain...Dialogue (Paris: Fayard/Galilee), p. 15.
Ibid., p.16.
Ibid., p. 16.
Ibid., p.16.
Jacques Derrida (2002). Negotiations:Interventions andInterviews, 1971–2001. Translated by Elizabeth Rottenberg (Stanford: Stanford University Press), p. 111.
See also Jacques Derrida (2001). On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (London & New York: Routledge).
Jacques Derrida (2000). “Autrui est secret parce qu’il est autre,” LeMonde de l’Education, no. 284, 14–21. Reprinted in “21 penseurs pour comprendre le XXIe siecle... et 21 regards critiques,” Numero Special, LeMonde de l’Education, no. 194 (2001), 104–112. Translated by Denise Egea-Kuehne.
Jacques Derrida (1994). Specters ofMarx. Translated by Peggy Kamuf (New York & London: Routledge), p. 75.
Jacques Derrida (1999). “Marx & Sons,” in Michael Sprinker (ed.), GhastlyDemarcations:A Symposium on JacquesDerrida’s Specters ofMarx (New York:Uerso), p.248.
Ibid., p. 248.
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Egéa-Kuehne, D. (2005). Right to Humanities: Of Faith and Responsibility. In: Trifonas, P.P., Peters, M.A. (eds) Deconstructing Derrida. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980649_4
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