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Williams, Emma (2021) Language subjects : placing Derrida's monolingualism in global education. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 40 . pp. 135-148. doi:10.1007/s11217-021-09757-w ISSN 0039-3746.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11217-021-09757-w
Abstract
Derrida’s autobiographical and philosophical text Monolingualism of the Other; or, the Prosthesis of Origin is a partial recounting of his own childhood and upbringing in Algeria at a time when it was a colony of France. It is on one level a reflection on matters related to colonialism, and especially on the effects of the imposition of colonial language upon schooling and wider practices of education and coming into the world. Yet Derrida’s text also opens onto structural questions about estrangement, unsettledness and Unheimlichkeit such as they pertain to and characterise life in language more generally. This paper puts Derrida’s Monolingualism of the Other into relation with contemporary discussions of multilingualism and language learning in the context of the global education agenda. The result, as we shall see, is the destabilising of assumptions that underpin multilingualism and the global education agenda and foreclose their democratic and ethical aims. At the same time, as we shall also see, Derrida’s text opens ways in which the education of language subjects can be reconstructed in relation to a new conception of ethics and the humanities.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LC Special aspects of education P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Derrida, Jacques. Monolingualism of the Other; or, the Prosthesis of Origin -- Criticism and interpretation, Language and languages -- Philosophy, Multilingualism , Language and languages -- Study and teaching , Language and education | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Studies in Philosophy and Education | ||||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||||
ISSN: | 0039-3746 | ||||||
Official Date: | 11 March 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 40 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 135-148 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s11217-021-09757-w | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Description: | In Bojensen E. (ed). 'Derrida and Education' Special Issue of Studies in Philosophy and Education. |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 February 2021 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 March 2021 | ||||||
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