On the Right to Philosophy

Cover of the first edition
Author	Jacques Derrida
Original title	Du droit à la philosophie
Country	France
Language	French
Subject	Philosophy
Publication date	1990
Published in English	2002 (volume one) 2004 (volume two)
Media type	Print

Right to Philosophy (French: Du droit à la philosophie) is a 1990 book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It collects all of Derrida's writings, from 1975 till 1990, on the issue of the teaching of philosophy, the academic institution and the politics of philosophy in school and in the university. It has been translated in English in two volumes: Who's Afraid of Philosophy?: Right to Philosophy 1 (2002), and Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 (2004).

Contents

Volume 1 contains the essay Where a Teaching Body Begins and How It Ends, (pp. 67–91) first published separately in 1976 in France;^[1][2] and the 1977 essay The Age of Hegel (pp. 117–157).