Writing and Différance
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Peter Pericles Trifonas
Abstract
The theme of pedagogy and more generally education as supplementarity has been all but ignored in critical discussions engaging Jacques Derrida’s of grammatology. By and large, the sustained emphasis of inquiry has instead been on evaluating the epistemological and methodological parameters of deconstruction as a theory of reading and writing and not as a treatise on the ethics of pedagogical praxis. The essay rereads “... That Dangerous Supplement...,” the chapter on Rousseau on writing, while keeping the theme of pedagogy at the forefront of the analysis of supplementarity. Derrida presents for the “science of a new writing” in the “gram” that flourishes within the codic play of differences. But it is as différance that the grammatological conversion of semiology takes place via deconstruction. Such a focus provides new insights into deconstruction that could allow us to effectively gauge the edusemiotic potential of its influence on educational theory, not only as a theoretical departure from classical modes of reading and writing, but as the inaugural steps toward and beyond a theory of education that could ground an ethical praxis.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Contemporary approaches to a pedagogy of process
- Signs as functions: Edusemiotic and ontological foundations for a semiotic concept of a sign
- Edusemiotics as process semiotics: Towards a new model of semiosis for teaching and learning
- The implications for education of Peirce’s agapist principle
- Writing and Différance
- Seeing through the metaphor: The OECD quality toolbox for early childhood
- Values, edusemiotics, and intercultural dialogue: From Russia with questions
- Usage de l’objet, signification et émergence de la conscience à l’étape préverbale du développement: Une perspective édusémiotique
- Les intuitions édusémiotiques des grands pédagogues : Engagement sémiotique, théorie de l’enquête et narrativité
- Edusemiotics and Karl-Otto Apel’s transcendental semiotics
- Edusemiotics of meaningful learning experience: Revisiting Kant’s pedagogical paradox and Greimas’ semiotic square
- Can design inquiry advance edusemiotics? Rethinking factual information and imaginative interpretation
- Monstrous hermeneutics: Learning from diagrams
- Learning to take play seriously: Peirce, Bateson, and Huizinga on the sacrality of play
