The young Derrida and French philosophy, 1945-1968 /

"The intellectual history of postwar France often resembles village life. Most of the important academic institutions - the Sorbonne, the Ecole Normale Supeþrieure, the College de France, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, even the cafes where Sartre debated with Camus - sit within the same...

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Main Author: Baring, Edward, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011
Series:Ideas in context ; 98.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.