The young Derrida and French philosophy, 1945-1968
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The young Derrida and French philosophy, 1945-1968
（Ideas in context / edited by Quentin Skinner (general editor) ... [et al.], 98）
Cambridge University Press, 2013, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-318) and index
"First published 2011. First paperback edition 2013"--T.p. verso
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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.
Table of Contents
- 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 Ecole Normale Superieure 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 differance
- 7. L'ambiguite du concours: the deconstruction of commentary and interpretation in Speech and Phenomena
- 8. The ends of man: reading and writing at the ENS
- Epilogue.
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