''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).
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;
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).
External links
''Who's afraid of philosophy?: Right to philosophy 1''''Eyes of the university: Right to philosophy 2''
* Peter Trifona
''Jacques Derrida as a Philosopher of Education''
Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Education
{{Jacques Derrida
1990 non-fiction books
2002 non-fiction books
2004 non-fiction books
Books about education
Education reform
Books about the philosophy of education
Works by Jacques Derrida