MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

PHL4920

Contemporary European thought B: Derrida

Karen Green 8 points + 2 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton Synopsis This course will focus on the work of Jacques Derrida, his strategy of deconstruction and critique of logocentrism. Topics to be covered will include phonocentrism and logocentrism, linguistics and grammatology, speech and writing, and differance. Particular empphasis will be placed on the relationship between Derrida's thought and analytic philosophy of language. Assessment Written (6000 words): 100% + Option of a 3000-word essay and a 3-hour examination