Globalization, Peace, and cosmopolitan jacques derrida

1. Globalization, Peace, and cosmopolitanjacquesderrida Marissa Fulache EDUC 714: Educational institutions as cultural social systems Dr. John Winslade

2. About jacquesderrida • Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was the founder of “deconstruction,” a way of criticizing not only both literary and philosophical texts but also political institutions. • expressed regret concerning the fate of the word “deconstruction,” its popularity indicates the wide-ranging influence of his thought, in philosophy, in literary criticism and theory, in art and, in particular, architectural theory, and in political theory. • Derridean deconstruction consists in an attempt to re-conceive the difference that divides self-reflection (or self-consciousness).

3. Life and work of derrida • Derrida was born on July 15, 1930 in El-Biar (a suburb of Algiers), Algeria, into a Sephardic Jewish family. • Derrida's writing concerns auto-bio-graphy (writing about one's life as a form of relation to oneself), many of his writings are auto-biographical. • Derrida became famous at the end of the 1960's, with the publication of three books in 1967. • “Deconstruction” is the most famous of Derrida's terms

4. summary • Derrida embraced the the concept of “the world” in order to describe how an imaginary of collectivity is supported in the dominance or global ethos of English at the top of the linguistic hierarchy, whose Abrahamic tradition infiltrates and reshapes a host of concepts. Derrida focused on work, forgiveness, peace, and death penalty in ways that speak to both the particular and the universal, or rather aim toward universality.

5. Globalization, peace, and cosmopolitan • Quasi professions of faith -> to make a responsible decision. • Invent a role of transaction of compromise of negotiation not programmable by any knowledge nor by science or consciousness. • Mondialism -> Globalization.

6. Globalization • Effects of globalization -> technoscience (computer, e-mail, internet) -> unequally, unfairly distributed in the world. • Electro age -> disadvantage. • Euphoric image of globalization must be challenged seriously. • Homogenization -> inequalities. • Privileged places ->organization of resistance-> imbalances. • Linguistic, the most visible and massive destruction. • Linguistic -> Hegemony -> Universal communication.

7. New “world contract” • “Whoever tends to assume political or legal responsibilities in this matter: to account for what in this heritage of the concept of the world and in the process of globalization makes possible and necessary-by assuming it, with a profession of faith -> actual universalization, which frees itself of its own roots or historical and geographical”.

8. 4 main themes as part of heritage • Work->painfully charged with so much meaning and history. • Forgiveness->global dramatization of the scene of repentance. • Peace->interventions • The death penalty

9. Problems with globalization • The renewed reaffirmation in its many declarations of the constantly enriched “rights of man”. • Crime against humanity. • Consequently, the putting into question (very unequal, it is true, and indeed problematic, but altogether crucial and irreversible) of the barely secularized theological principle of the sovereignty of nation states.

10. References: • Derrida, J. (2002). Globalization, Peace, and Cosmopolitanism. In J. Derrida, Negotiations: Interventions and interview, 1971-2001 (pp. 371-386), Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.