| TEXT PREPARATION 4
Assignment due in class on November 29 from anyone who has not completed a Text Preparation *Since part of the value of the text preparation assignment is that it will prepare you to be an active participant in tutorial and in class, it may only be submitted in class on the day it is due. If you have to miss that day's class, please contact me to make alternate arrangements. |
Based on your reading of the assigned
selections from Derrida, "How to Avoid Speaking: Denials," please
address the questions below in
3-4 well-written paragraphs (spanning about 3 pages). Since this is
your first reading of these selections, and since we have not yet
discussed them in class, you are not being asked to supply definitive
answers but preliminary, thoughtful responses based on close attention
to the text. Your answers may also include 1-2 important questions
raised by your reading for further discussion.
1.
(176 middle – 178 middle; and 181, para. 2, line 2: "However, at the
opening..." – 182, middle of para. 3: “…according to its prayer and its
promise”) What features does Derrida ascribe to “prayer,” and how
does he relate those features to each other?
2.
What leads Derrida to conclude that Heidegger "wrote, with and without the word 'Being,' a theology with and without God" (192)?
As for previous assignments and the midterm, in preparing this assignment please use in-text parenthetical page references.
Your assignment should be printed double-spaced and with one-inch margins, using a 10-12-point font. Please number and staple the pages you hand in.
Please keep a copy of your assignment to refer to in our class discussion.
posted November 26, 2011