Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative

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...