The young Derrida and French philosophy, 1945-1968 / Edward Baring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baring, Edward, 1980- author.

Series:

Ideas in context ; 98.

Ideas in context ; 98

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 326 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Young Derrida & French Philosophy, 1945-1968

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 École Normale Supérieure. 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.

Contents:

Introduction

Humanist pretensions: Catholics, communists and Sartre's struggle for existentialism in postwar France

Derrida's "Christian" existentialism

Normalization: the École normale supérieure and Derrida's turn to Husserl

Genesis as a problem:Derrida reading Husserl

The God of mathematics: Derrida and the origin of geometry

A history of différance

L'ambiguité du concours: the deconstruction of commentary and interpretation in Speech and Phenomena

The ends of man: reading and writing at the ENS

Epilogue.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-15297-1

1-107-22834-4

1-283-34256-1

9786613342560

1-139-16052-4

1-139-16152-0

1-139-15595-4

1-139-15770-1

1-139-15947-X

0-511-84208-2

OCLC:

763159295