Derrida on Identity and Difference: A Radical Democratic Reading of The Other Heading

Abstract

Both modernist and post-modern social criticism of power pre suppose that agents frequently consent to power relations, which a political theorist may wish to critique. This raises the question: from what normative position can one critique power which is, as a sociological fact, legitimate in the eyes of those who reproduce it? This paper argues that "symbolic violence" is a useful metaphor for providing such a normative grounding. In order to provide an epistemological basis of critique, it is further argued that social actors have multiple interpretative horizons avail able to them as part of their everyday social practices. Thus, they are not caught in a preconstituted web of meaning from which there is no escape, as is sometimes implicit in the over-socialized perceptions of agency associated with post-modernism.     

The Cohesion and Teaching of English Writing

This paper introduces the purpose of our English teaching briefly and a few points for attention in the standards of English writing evaluation. On the basis of this, it discusses the relationship between English writing and cohesion in order to try to find an appropriate method for our English writing.     

Politics and enlightenment: Kant and Derrida on cosmopolitan responsibility

Walter Benjamin once remarked of the enterprise of translation ‘that it is nowhere’: that the labour of transcribing the sense, inflection and difference of any particular language and text must always situate the translator in a space which is neither ‘of the original, nor ‘of the language into which it is to be transcribed. This ‘non‐position’ of the translator—between the original and its analogue, between the ‘spirit’ and the ‘letter’, the difference and the acceptability of the text—marks the labour of translation as an ethical responsibility: that of communicating the significance of something—a gesture, a story, a custom, a tradition—which has appeared to this/our socio‐linguistic culture as strange and unfathomably alien; and to achieve this communication without annulling its strangeness, its alterity. The purpose of my comparison of Kant and Derrida's remarks on cosmopolitical responsibility therefore, is fourfold. First, I want to suggest that it is this ‘stricture’ of translation—this difficult responsibility of both judging and respecting the difference of foreign’ cultures—which marks the (non‐Kantian, non‐situated) ‘territory’ of cosmopolitical responsibility. Second, by using Kant's remarks on the relationship between the political evolution of European Enlightenment culture and a possible world confederation of sovereign states, I want to point up the hierarchies and secondarizations involved in the determination of universal standards of moral, ethical and political conduct (even if these standards are originally prosecuted as the legislative conditions of a ‘radical democracy'). Third, I want to look at the ways in which the stricture of translation has been articulated as a theory of ‘global’ responsibility—particularly in the divergent ethical and political approaches of Jurgen Habermas and Jean‐Francois Lyotard. Fourth, I want to suggest that it is Derrida's idea of a ‘dual responsibility’ of critical thought to the political and philosophical resources of European Enlightenment and to the difference of non‐European nations and cultures, that marks the difficulty (the stricture) of acting responsibly within the global economics of power, identity and legislation. I want, in other words, to show that the ‘nowhere’ of Benjamin's translator, is a ‘place’ whose possibility demands a certain ‘Kantian’ right of reflection; that is, the right to pursue the ‘transcendent’ principle of respect for the other.     

写作教学与创新思维能力的培养

思维是写作教学的网络枢纽,创新思维又是思维网络中的枢纽。写作思维的本质特征是创新,惟有“表现创新”与“创新表现”才是写作思维的真正价值所在。写作主体要具有创新思维品质。围绕培养创新思维能力,全面开展写作教学活动,便抓住了写作教学枢纽的枢纽。     

为有源头活水来--谈把阅读引进公安应用写作教学

如何进一步提高写作教学的质量和效果,这是困扰公安写作学科多年而一直未能很好解决的一个难题.对此,本文提出,重提阅读的意义,重新审视阅读对于写作教学的作用,给阅读以应有的重视和地位,是很有必要的.文章强调,阅读是学习写作的前提和基础,把阅读引进写作教学,围绕写作展开阅读,通过阅读提高教学效果和写作能力.如此,写作教学便如有了源头活水,就会变得富有生机和活力.     

Derrida, Lyotard and the Orientations of a New Academic Responsibility

The paper examines the ethics of research and knowledge as it is constructed in the postmodern, technophilic university. It takes as its premise that the modern university is driven by research that is funded by external sources and therefore is directed or guided toward questions that arise outside of the university. Academic responsibility therefore must take into account not only the duty to questions of knowledge and truth but to the nature of who that knowledge will serve and how. The paper looks at these questions through the work of Jacques Derrida and Jean-Francois Lyotard to understand the ethical problems the question of research pose for educational institutions and those who live within their walls.     

民办高职院校《应用写作》课程教学漫谈

本文从写作课程开设的现状出发,根据民办高职院校开设《应用写作》课程的实践体会,对该课程的教学方面提出一些浅见,同时结合学生学习分析得出一些学习方法。     

论基于英美文学作品阅读的大学英语写作教学

目前的大学英语写作教学中普遍存在将写作与阅读割裂的现象。写作教学过分强调写作这门课程的独立性,忽视写作与阅读之间相辅相成、相互依赖的密切联系。将英美文学作品阅读融入英语写作教学是极有必要的。学生通过对英美文学作品的阅读和鉴赏,能够增强学生进行英语写作的兴趣,提高学生篇章构筑能力,提高灵活运用语言的能力和跨文化交际的能力,从而提高学生英语写作水平。     

任务型教学在高职院校学生英语写作中的教学浅探

由于招生生源原因,目前高职院校学生英语处于大学生水平中的最低层次,这就导致学生在写作练习中遇到多方面的困难。因此,要结合其实际来选择恰当的学习方式才能有效。那么,任务型教学因其自身特点和内涵,有可能成为高职院校英语写作有效教学的一种具体运用模式。为此,探讨关于高职院校的任务型英语写作教学就显得很有必要。     

Ethics and Government: Preliminary Considerations

This symposium reproduces several of the papers presented during the international conference sponsored by the Queensland University of Technology Centre for the Study of Ethics, at Parliament House, Brisbane, 11-13 February, 1999. The theme of the conference was 'Government and Business: Integrity and Accountability'. The papers have been revised following discussions within a research colloquium associated with the conference. They were initially presented within a strand entitled 'Competition, Marketisation, Public Services and Public Ethics' which explored ethical issues for contemporary government within different national contexts (New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Malaysia and Australia) around the impact of economic policies that have reframed the role of government primarily as a servant of the international market.     

More than Writing on a Wall: Evaluating the Role that Codes of Ethics Play in Securing Accountability of Public Sector Decision‐Makers

This article argues that the essential factors of a public service code of ethics can be divided into five categories. These categories or principles are fairness, transparency, responsibility, efficiency and conflict of interest. These principles are identified in this article as being the basic elements of democratic accountability in relation to public sector decision‐making. The issues explored are not only the obstacles that the public service decision‐maker faces in internalising these principles but, also, the challenges for a pro‐active management in fostering such internalisation.     

Review Essay: Between Deleuze and Derrida,Editors, Paul Patton & John Protevi

Abstract

Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida have each made significant contributions to philosophies of difference and yet few have tackled the difficult task of studying the connection between the two. In their forthcoming book, Between Deleuze and Derrida, editors Paul Patton and John Protevi do exactly this. What emerges is a fascinating study of the similarities and differences between the two philosophers and in particular the ethical and political threads underlying their connection.