T 4/30 Awards Day – Class Starts 3:15 pm; “The Other Heading”

Topics: European cultural identity and the other

1. What is the double bind – or aporia – and how does it pertain to the question of European cultural identity?

2. What does Derrida have to say about the tension in cultural identity between the regional and particular on the one hand and the universal on the other?

3. How does the word “heading” entail eschatology and teleology, and how are these both disrupted by “the irruption of the new”?