WEEK THREE: JACQUES DERRIDA AND DECONSTRUCTION

Monday, January 20

• Plato, Phaedrus, trans. Walter Hamilton (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973).
  
• Jacques Derrida, "Plato's Pharmacy," Dissemination, trans. Barbara Johnson (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981): 61-84.
  
• For a detailed, section-by-section guide to all of "Plato's Pharmacy," click here.
  
• For a handout, including a timeline for Derrida and questions on Plato, click here.
  
• For students' responses to the first assignment from Derrida, click here.

Wednesday, January 22

• Jacques Derrida, "Plato's Pharmacy": 85-119.
• For students' responses to this assignment, click here.

Friday, January 24

• Jacques Derrida, "Plato's Pharmacy": 120-71.
• For students' responses to this assignment, click here.

WHAT NEXT?

• Homepage for English 60A
  
• Overview of the entire ten-week syllabus
  
• Handouts for the course
  
• Students' responses to readings from the course