Deconstructing Derrida: Tasks for the New Humanities

Responding to Jacques Derrida's vision for what a "new" humanities should strive toward, Peter Trifonas and Michael Peters gather together in a single volume original essays by major scholars in the humanities today. Using Derrida's seven programmatic theses as a springboard, the contributors aim to reimagine, as Derrida did, the tasks for the new humanities in such areas as history of literature, history of democracy, history of profession, idea of sovereignty, and history of man.

Peter Pericles Trifonas is assistant professor of social and cultural studies in education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto. He resides in Toronto, Ontario. Michael A. Peters is research profesor of education at the University of Glasgow and has a personal chair at the University of Auckland. He resides in Glasgow, Scotland, and Auckland, New Zealand.