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Subject(s)

• Philosophy, French—20th century [Browse]
• Derrida, Jacques [Browse]

Series

• Ideas in context ; 98. [More in this series]
• Ideas in context ; 98 [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Notes

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

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

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.

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Other title(s)

The Young Derrida & French Philosophy, 1945-1968

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

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