Arguing with Derrida

by Simon Glendinning (Editor)

Overview

This volume comprises the complete proceedings of the 1999 Ratio Conference at which Derrida made significant contributions on various topics, including the relation of his work to analytical philosophy, the logic of argument, truth ineffability, meaning, animal life, and the appeal to the ordinary in the work of Wittgenstein and J.L. Austin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631226529
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/08/2001
Series:	Ratio Special Issues
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Dr. Simon Glendinning is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of On Being With Others: Heidegger - Derrida - Wittgenstein (1998) and the General Editor of The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy (1999). He has written articles on perception, aesthetics, animal existence and various metaphilosophical issues. He is currently writing an introduction to twentieth century continental philosophy (2002).

Table of Contents

1. Preface: Simon Glendinning (University of Reading).

2. Inheriting 'Philosophy': The Case of Austin and Derrida Revisited: Simon Glendinning (University of Reading).

3. For the Sake of Argument (Up to a Point): Geoffrey Bennington (University of Sussex).

4. Response to Bennington: Jacques Derrida (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales).

5. Arguing with Derrida: A.W.Moore (St Hugh's, Oxford University).

6. Response to Moore: Jacques Derrida (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales).

7. Death and Meaning - Some Questions for Derrida: Thomas Baldwin (University of York).

8. Response to Baldwin: Jacques Derrida (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales).

9. Wittgenstein and Deconstruction: Stephen Mulhall (New College, Oxford University).

10. Response to Mulhall: Jacques Derrida (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales).

11. The Reading Affair: On Why Philosophy is not 'Philosophical' Through and Through: Darren Sheppard (Staffordshire University).

Notes on Contributors.

Index