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The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968 (Ideas in Context)

By Edward Baring

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
1107009677, 9781107009677
LCC
B2430.D484 B377 2011
Open Library ID
OL24906971M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2160779 bytes)
Series
Ideas in Context 98
Edition
1
Pages
351\351
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In this powerful new 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 ?cole Normale Sup?rieure. 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.

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