Notes on contributors vii
Preface x
Acknowledgements xi
Opening: Derrida & education 1
DBNISB EGBA-KUBHNE AND GERT J. J. BIBSTA

1 Derrida and the question of education: a new
space for philosophy 12
DIDIER CAHEN
2 "Preparing for the incalculable": deconstruction, justice,
and the question of education 32
GERT J. J. BIESTA
3 "A certain 'madness' must watch over thinking": refusing
to build a philosophical system, Derrida privileges
experience and writes out of "compulsion". A dialogue
around traces and deconstructions ,55
JACQUES DERRIDA'S INTERVIEW WITH FRANCOIS EWALD
4 The learning pharmacy 77
PAUL STANDISH
5 Teaching the Other II: ethics, writing, community 98
PETER TRIFONAS



6 Just decide! Derrida and the ethical aporias of education 119
JULIAN EDGOOSE
7 Does speaking of others involve receiving the "other"?
A postcolonial reading of receptivity in Derrida's deconstruction of Timaeus 134
ZELIA GREGORIOU
8 The gift of Bildung: reflections on the relationship between singularity and justice in the concept of Bildung 150
MICHAEL WIMMER
9 "Talking liberties" 176
JACQUES DERRIDA'S INTERVIEW WITH ALAN MONTEFIORE
10 Derrida's ethics of affirmation: the challenge of educational rights and responsibility 186
DENISE EGEA-KUEHNE
11 Humanism, Derrida, and the new humanities 209
MICHAEL PETERS

Bibliography 232
Subject index 246
Name index 250