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Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative Contributor(s): Norris, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 1441128328 ISBN-13: 9781441128324 Publisher: Continuum
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2012 Click for more in this series: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy |
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BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
Dewey: 194 |
LCCN: 2012004675 |
Series: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.03 lbs) 240 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index |
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Publisher Description: 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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