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PREPARATION 5
Assignment due in class on March 31 from some students* *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 Derrida, "How to Avoid Speaking: Denials" (1986):
please write 3-4 well-written paragraphs (spanning about 3 pages) on his treatment of the following terms: prayer, apostrophe/address, secret. Try to explain what each term means (in general and/or for Derrida's purposes) and why Derrida is interested in it.
Since this is your first reading of this text, and since we have not yet discussed it 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.
As you for past assignments, 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.
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March 25, 2010