The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968

by Baring, Edward

• ISBN13: 9781107009677
• ISBN10: 1107009677
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-28
• Publisher: Textstream

Summary

In this powerful new 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 Supèrieure. 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

Derrida Post-Existentialist

Humanist pretensions: Catholics, Communists and Sartre's struggle for existentialism in post-war 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

Between Phenomenology and Structuralism

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

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