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UNIVERSITY WITH CONDITIONS: A DECONSTRUCTIVE READING OF DERRIDA'S “THE UNIVERSITY WITHOUT CONDITION”
Author(s) -
FUJITA HISASHI
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2012.00096.x
Subject(s) - immanence , transcendental number , performative utterance , transcendence (philosophy) , philosophy , reading (process) , institution , jurisprudence , political philosophy , event (particle physics) , epistemology , politics , theology , sociology , law , linguistics , social science , physics , quantum mechanics , political science
The possibility of a Derridian theory of the university lies not in the discussion of the “as if” in “The University without Condition” but, rather, in a theoretical crack that Derrida's book promised to elucidate—between the “as if” and the “perhaps,” the performative and the event, transcendence and immanence. Moreover, we see a kind of rupture between this book and numerous texts from the 1970s and 80s, which are collected and published under the title of Right to Philosophy. Here lies a real philosophical stake. We see between the early Derrida and the later Derrida not only an ethico‐political turn but also, so to speak, a radical transition from the problematic of institution or case law ( jurisprudence ) to the axiomatic of law ( loi ) by aggravation of the transcendental.