The young Derrida and French philosophy,1946--1967.
详细信息
- 作者：Baring ; Edward George.
- 学历：Doctor
- 年：2009
- 毕业院校：Harvard University
- ISBN：9781109253672
- CBH：3365087
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：25972295
- Pages：477
文摘
This dissertation is the first study to draw substantially on the Derrida archives in Irvine, California, and Caen, France. Derrida has often portrayed himself as an outsider who was rejected by the academic establishment, and this view has become standard in the secondary literature. But where a concentration on published texts may give the impression of a lone intellectual, archival analysis focusing on Derridas correspondence, reading materials, and teaching work shows just how embedded he was in the rich texture of the French philosophical community, and the impact that personal and professional relationships had on his philosophy. The first part of the dissertation follows Derridas intellectual itinerary through the 1950s, studying his student essays to show how he engaged with existentialist and phenomenological thought. In particular it draws attention to the political and religious climate in which he was first introduced to philosophy. Derridas early enthusiasm for Jean-Paul Sartre was moderated by his adoption of the Christian critique of atheistic existentialism, following thinkers such as Gabriel Marcel, Rene le Senne, and Henri Birault. This position was complicated upon his entry to the Ecole Normale Superieure, where his philosophy was refracted towards Husserlian phenomenology through a socially powerful Communist philosophical tradition, especially the work of Tran Duc Thao. The second part of the dissertation continues the story into the 1960s, re-reading the history of structuralism through Derridas work. It studies Derridas relationship with Jacques Lacan and Louis Althusser, with whom he taught at the ENS. It was in this environment that Derrida developed his theory of writing grammatology), whose primary role was the integration of phenomenological insights into a structuralist tradition that was otherwise hostile towards appeals to intuition. Moving between an existentialism-inspired phenomenology and French structuralism, Derridas development provides a valuable lens, not just for re-evaluating one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century, but also for examining the broader intellectual history of postwar France.