Derrida / Searle: Deconstruction and Ordinary Language - Hardcover

Moati, Raoul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231166702 ISBN 13: 9780231166706

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech acts, or the "performative," that Jacques Derrida and John R. Searle interpreted in fundamentally different ways. Their disagreement centered on the issue of intentionality, which Derrida understood phenomenologically and Searle read pragmatically. The controversy had profound implications for the development of contemporary philosophy, which, Moati argues, can profit greatly by returning to this classic debate.

In this book, Moati systematically replays the historical encounter between Austin, Derrida, and Searle and the disruption that caused the lasting break between Anglo-American language philosophy and continental traditions of phenomenology and its deconstruction. The key issue, Moati argues, is not whether "intentionality," a concept derived from Husserl's phenomenology, can or cannot be linked to Austin's speech-acts as defined in his groundbreaking How to Do Things with Words, but rather the emphasis Searle placed on the performativity and determined pragmatic values of Austin's speech-acts, whereas Derrida insisted on the trace of writing behind every act of speech and the iterability of signs in different contexts.

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Raoul Moati is a French philosopher and an assistant professor of continental philosophy at the University of Chicago. His books include Psychanalyse, marxisme, idéalisme allemand, autour de Slavoj Zizek and Evénements Nocturnes, Essai sur Totalité et Infini.

Timothy Attanucci is a lecturer in German at Princeton University.

Maureen Chun is a postdoctoral fellow and honorary assistant professor of English at the University of Hong Kong.

Jean-Michel Rabaté is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0231166702
• ISBN 13: 9780231166706
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 138
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