Right to Philosophy

On the Right to Philosophy (French: Du droit à la philosophie) is a 1990 book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It collects all of Derrida's writings, from 1975 till 1990, on the issue of the teaching of philosophy, the academic institution and the politics of philosophy in school and in the university. It has been translated in English in two volumes: Who's Afraid of Philosophy?: Right to Philosophy 1 (2002), and Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 (2004).

On the Right to Philosophy
Cover of the first edition
AuthorJacques Derrida
Original titleDu droit à la philosophie
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
SubjectPhilosophy
Publication date
1990
Published in English
2002 (volume one)
2004 (volume two)
Media typePrint

Contents

Volume 1 contains the essay Where a Teaching Body Begins and How It Ends, (pp. 67–91) first published separately in 1976 in France;[1][2] and the 1977 essay The Age of Hegel (pp. 117–157).

Notes and references

Further reading

  • Derrida's The Right to Philosophy from the Cosmopolitical Point of View (1997)
  • Derrida's interview with Robert Maggiori, Once Again from the Top: Of the Right to Philosophy, in Libération, November 15, 1990, republished in Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994 (1995).
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