Derrida/Searle : Deconstruction and Ordinary Language / Raoul Moati.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moati, Raoul, author.

Contributor:

Attanucci, Timothy.

Chun, Maureen.

Rabaté, Jean-Michel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Searle, John R.

Language and languages--Philosophy--20th century.

Language and languages.

Performative (Philosophy).

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Ordinary-language philosophy.

Deconstruction.

Intentionality (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950's, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech acts, or the "performative," that Jacques Derrida and John R. Searle interpreted in fundamentally different ways. Their disagreement centered on the issue of intentionality, which Derrida understood phenomenologically and Searle read pragmatically. The controversy had profound implications for the development of contemporary philosophy, which, Moati argues, can profit greatly by returning to this classic debate. In this book, Moati systematically replays the historical encounter between Austin, Derrida, and Searle and the disruption that caused the lasting break between Anglo-American language philosophy and continental traditions of phenomenology and its deconstruction. The key issue, Moati argues, is not whether "intentionality," a concept derived from Husserl's phenomenology, can or cannot be linked to Austin's speech-acts as defined in his groundbreaking How to Do Things with Words, but rather the emphasis Searle placed on the performativity and determined pragmatic values of Austin's speech-acts, whereas Derrida insisted on the trace of writing behind every act of speech and the iterability of signs in different contexts.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword: Per Formam Doni / Rabaté, Jean-Michel

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Iterative as the Reverse Side of the Performative

2. Do Intentions Dissolve in Iteration?

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231537179

0231537174

OCLC:

870244529