Edward Baring

Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this powerful study Edward Baring sheds fresh light on Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential yet controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. Reading Derrida from a historical perspective and drawing on new archival sources, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy shows how Derrida's thought arose in the closely contested space of post-war French intellectual life, developing in response to Sartrian existentialism, religious philosophy and the structuralism that found its base at the Ecole Normale Superieure. In a history of the philosophical movements and academic institutions of post-war France, Baring paints a portrait of a community caught between humanism and anti-humanism, providing a radically new interpretation of the genesis of deconstruction and of one of the most vibrant intellectual moments of modern times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139152976
• Artikelnr.: 49266337

Autorenporträt

Edward Baring is Assistant Professor of Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History at Drew University. Educated at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University, his work was awarded the Harold K. Gross Prize by Harvard University in 2010. He has won fellowships from the DAAD, ACLS and Mellon Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Derrida Post-Existentialist: 1. Humanist pretensions: Catholics, Communists and Sartre's struggle for existentialism in post-war France
2. Derrida's 'Christian' existentialism
3. Normalization: the École Normale Supérieure and Derrida's turn to Husserl
4. Genesis as a problem: Derrida reading Husserl
5. The God of mathematics: Derrida and the origin of geometry
Part II. Between Phenomenology and Structuralism: 6. A history of différance
7. L'ambiguité du concours: the deconstruction of commentary and interpretation in Speech and Phenomena
8. The ends of man: reading and writing at the ENS
Epilogue.