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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781859403321

Autore

Baring Edward <1980->

Titolo

The young Derrida and French philosophy, 1945-1968 / / Edward Baring [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

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

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Ideas in context ; ; 98

Classificazione

PHI009000

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Philosophy, French - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.