Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative
In this path-breaking study Christopher Norris proposes a transformed understanding of the much-exaggerated differences between analytic and continental philosophy. While keeping the analytic tradition squarely in view his book focuses on the work of Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou, two of the most original and significant figures in the recent history of ideas.

Norris argues that these thinkers have decisively reconfigured the terrain of contemporary philosophy and, between them, pointed a way beyond some of those seemingly intractable issues that have polarised debate on both sides of the notional rift between the analytic and continental traditions. In particular his book sets out to show - against the received analytic wisdom - that continental philosophy has its own analytic resources and is capable of bringing some much-needed fresh insight to bear on problems in philosophy of language, logic and mathematics. Norris provides not only a unique comparative account of Derrida's and Badiou's work but also a remarkably wide-ranging assessment of their joint contribution to philosophy's current - if widely resisted - potential for self-transformation.

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Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative
In this path-breaking study Christopher Norris proposes a transformed understanding of the much-exaggerated differences between analytic and continental philosophy. While keeping the analytic tradition squarely in view his book focuses on the work of Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou, two of the most original and significant figures in the recent history of ideas.

Norris argues that these thinkers have decisively reconfigured the terrain of contemporary philosophy and, between them, pointed a way beyond some of those seemingly intractable issues that have polarised debate on both sides of the notional rift between the analytic and continental traditions. In particular his book sets out to show - against the received analytic wisdom - that continental philosophy has its own analytic resources and is capable of bringing some much-needed fresh insight to bear on problems in philosophy of language, logic and mathematics. Norris provides not only a unique comparative account of Derrida's and Badiou's work but also a remarkably wide-ranging assessment of their joint contribution to philosophy's current - if widely resisted - potential for self-transformation.

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Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative

Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative

by Christopher Norris
Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative

Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative

by Christopher Norris

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In this path-breaking study Christopher Norris proposes a transformed understanding of the much-exaggerated differences between analytic and continental philosophy. While keeping the analytic tradition squarely in view his book focuses on the work of Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou, two of the most original and significant figures in the recent history of ideas.

Norris argues that these thinkers have decisively reconfigured the terrain of contemporary philosophy and, between them, pointed a way beyond some of those seemingly intractable issues that have polarised debate on both sides of the notional rift between the analytic and continental traditions. In particular his book sets out to show - against the received analytic wisdom - that continental philosophy has its own analytic resources and is capable of bringing some much-needed fresh insight to bear on problems in philosophy of language, logic and mathematics. Norris provides not only a unique comparative account of Derrida's and Badiou's work but also a remarkably wide-ranging assessment of their joint contribution to philosophy's current - if widely resisted - potential for self-transformation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441128324
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/04/2012
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy , #267
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Diagonals: truth-procedures in Derrida and Badiou
2. Badiou: truth, ethics, and the formal imperative
3. Deconstruction, Logic and "Ordinary Language": Derrida on the limits of thought
4. Tractatus Mathematico-Politicus: Badiou's Being and Event
5. Of Supplementarity: Derrida on truth, language, and deviant logic
6. Summa Pro Mathematica: further perspectives on Being and Event \ Notes
Indexof Names

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