...Brian McGrath In the Death Penalty seminar, Derrida is on the side of abolition. The seminar has in mind an end: the end of the death penalty. But this end is not simple or straightforward, for as Derrida explores, the death penalty is nothing other than an attempt to control the end by making...

...Adam R. Rosenthal In this article the author explores how the problem of the seminar enters into the work of Jacques Derrida. He shows how it emerges not only within the context of the teaching institution but also as a conceptual thematic with a history far in excess of the educational...

...Herman Rapaport This article contextualizes Derrida’s seminars within the European seminar tradition familiar to French and German academic cultures as a prerequisite to discussing individual essays in a special issue of Poetics Today devoted to Derrida. These contributions engage with both...

...Thomas Clément Mercier This article examines Jacques Derrida’s work of self-reflection on his own teaching practice by using as a guiding thread the problematics of reproduction in the seminars of the 1970s. The first part of the article examines the sequence of seminars taught by Derrida at École...

..., the complete seminars of Jacques Derrida. These seminars, given variously at the Sorbonne, the École normale supérieure, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, the University of California, Irvine, the New School for Social Research, the Cardozo Law School...

...Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva The article focuses on the brief history of Bulgarian samizdat and its attempts to challenge the regime through written discourse as well as on two forms of oral discursive resistance: the Seminar, a mode of discourse rather than any organized and rigid structure...

...Samir Haddad This article examines Derrida’s use of untranslatables as a tool for teaching in his seminars. Focusing specifically on two related clusters of terms that appear in the seminar sessions published in Of Hospitality—xenos/étranger /foreigner and hostis/hôte /host/guest—the author shows...

...Peggy Kamuf This article aligns moments from three of Derrida’s seminars and seeks to characterize the signature gesture of his teaching, which may be described as putting his teaching body, or corps enseignant , on an indivisible line supposed to divide mortal bodies from the bodies...

... a member of the French editorial team for Derrida s seminars since its inception and is codirector of the Seminars of Jacques Derrida series at the University of Chicago Press. Since 2008, she has also directed the Derrida Seminars Translation Project. With Pascale-Anne Brault she coedited La vie la mort...

...Armando Mastrogiovanni Reproducing with Derrida Dawne McCance, The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida s La vie la mort. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2019. ix1191 pp. During the academic year 1975 76, Jacques Derrida taught a seminar at the E´cole normale supe´rieure (ENS) under...

... of the Celan vogue, are thickly interwoven with one another, so that their dense entanglement tempts one to read them as utter- ances in one idiom. These books, an essay collection by various scholars and three monographs, have a common origin in discussions that have taken place at an ongoing seminar...

... . Durham : Duke University Press . Lacan Jacques 1977a “ The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis .” In Ecrits. A Selection , translated by Sheridan Alan , 30 – 113 . London : Tavistock Publications . Lacan Jacques 1977b The Seminar. Book XI...

... between poetic expression and autopoietic growth. An early version of this essay was written in the wake of the “Shakespeare and Hospitality” seminar that I convened with David Goldstein at the Shakespeare Association of America conference in Toronto in March 2013. My thanks to the participants...

... Spenser Society’s Colin Clout Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, Princeton’s Gauss Seminars lectureship, Yale’s Morse Fellowship, Harvard’s Society of Fellows, and Indiana University’s Insti- tute for Advanced Study. He has published on the Bible since 1974. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics...

... in Roman- ticism (2006, 2009). John Pier is professor of English at the University Francois-Rabelais­ de Tours, and codirects the seminar “Naratologies contemporaines” at the Center for Research on the Arts and Language (CRAL) at the EHESS in Paris. A member of the steer- ing committee...

... and Semiotics 150 Poetics Today 36:1 – 2 Language (CNRS/EHESS) in Paris, where he codirects the seminar Current Research in Narratology. Cofounder and past chairman of the European Narratology Network (ENN), he also coedits the collection Narratologia at De Gruyter. He has published many articles...

...)Location of Meaning: Selected Papers of the Cetra Research Seminar and is guest editor of a forthcoming spe- cial issue of The Translator on humor translation (scheduled for publication in He is writing a thesis for a Ph.D. on the reception of foreign film comedy in Fran- coist Spain. Robert Rawdon...

.../discur- sive turn. The two groups focused on by the author—the Seminar and Steiner • On Samizdat, Tamizdat, Magnitizdat, and Other Strange Words 625 Synthesis1—opted for attacking the hegemony of Communist ideology on its own turf: by disrupting the symbolic order that engendered...

... European Journal, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, Journal of Literary Semantics,Modern Language Review, German Life and Letters, Oxford German Studies, and Monatshefte. Klaus Speidel is an art and image theorist, art critic, and curator. From 2015 to 2018, he headed the FWF Lise-Meitner Postdoc...

... at the Universite´ Franc ois-Rabelais de Tours and a member of the Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et le Langage (CNRS) in Paris, where he codirects the seminar “Recherches contempo- raines en narratologie.” Cofounder of the European Narratology Network (ENN) and past president of the ENN Steering Committee...