Ethics of Writing

Peter Trifonas is assistant professor of English education, social & cultural studies, global education, and transformative pedagogies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 Polemical Introduction: A Pedagogical Prelude to Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida, Ethics, and the Scene of TeachingChapter 3 1 The Cultural Politics of the Sign: The Ethics of Writing and the OtherChapter 4 2 The Ends of Pedagogy: From the Dialectic of Memory to the Deconstruction of the InstitutionChapter 5 3 Technologies of Reason: Beyond the Principle of Reason as the Metaphysical Foundation of the UniversityChapter 6 4 Teaching the Other the Limits of Philosophy: Face-to-Face with the Violence of DifferenceChapter 7 5 An Opening toward a praxis of the Future: The Ethics of Deconstruction and the Politics of PedagogyChapter 8 IndexChapter 9 About the Author

Peter Trifonas’ book is a wonderfully concentrated framing of the ineluctable educational gambit run by Derrida’s unsettling practice of theory. We can do no better in following writing’s reasoning machinery, as given and illusive as it is, than by pursuing Trifonas’ relentlessly political and ethical questioning of the knowing institutions by which we live.