The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107009677)

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.

Author: Edward Baring
ISBN-10: 1107009677
ISBN-13: 9781107009677
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2011
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.00d