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

Cover......Page 1
THE YOUNG DERRIDA AND FRENCH PHILOSOPHY, 1945–1968......Page 3
IDEAS IN CONTEXT 98......Page 4
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
A note on translations and reproductions......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
COMMUNISTS AND CATHOLICS DEBATING MAN......Page 18
DERRIDA AND CHRISTIAN THOUGHT......Page 19
DERRIDA AND HISTORY......Page 23
PART I Derrida post-existentialist......Page 29
CHAPTER 1 Humanist pretensions Catholics, communists, and Sartre’s struggle for existentialism in postwar France......Page 35
THE RISE OF HUMANISM......Page 37
MARXIST HUMANISM AND THE MAN OF TOMORROW......Page 38
MAN TURNED TOWARDS GOD: CATHOLIC HUMANISM......Page 42
AGENCY TODAY: SARTRE’S HUMANISM......Page 45
CHRISTIAN EXISTENTIALISM......Page 47
EXISTENTIALISM IS AN ATHEISM......Page 51
THE END OF THE HUMANIST AGE I: HUSSERL AND THE SCIENCE OF HISTORICAL MATERIALISM......Page 54
THE END OF THE HUMANIST AGE II: CHRISTIANS AND THE TURN TO HEIDEGGER......Page 56
CONCLUSION......Page 60
CHAPTER 2 Derrida\'s “Christian” existentialism......Page 62
DERRIDA’S YOUTHFUL EXISTENTIALISM......Page 63
THE LYCÉE LOUIS-LE-GRAND......Page 69
PROBLEMATIZING THE MYSTERY......Page 78
HUMANIST PHENOMENOLOGY......Page 81
CONCLUSION......Page 94
CHAPTER 3 Normalization: The Ecole Normale Supérieure and Derrida’s turn to Husserl......Page 96
THE ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE......Page 97
THE FREEDOM OF THE ELITE......Page 102
SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS......Page 105
CATHOLICS AND COMMUNISTS......Page 107
PHILOSOPHICAL POLITICS AND POLITICIZED PHILOSOPHY......Page 110
SAVING HUSSERL AND HEIDEGGER FROM SARTRE......Page 116
DERRIDA’S PLACE......Page 121
A MARXIST HUSSERL?......Page 123
CONCLUSION......Page 125
CHAPTER 4 Genesis as a problem: Derrida reading Husserl......Page 127
GENESIS AT THE ENS......Page 129
TOWARDS A MATERIALIST PHENOMENOLOGY......Page 132
DERRIDA’S PROBLEM OF GENESIS......Page 141
THE MANY USES OF THE DIALECTIC......Page 146
CHRISTIAN EXISTENTIALISM?......Page 150
PHILOSOPHY AND THE RISE OF HISTORY......Page 154
HEIDEGGER RETURNS......Page 157
CONCLUSION......Page 158
CHAPTER 5 The God of mathematics: Derrida and the Origin of Geometry......Page 160
EPISTEMOLOGY IN FRANCE......Page 161
THE NEXT GENERATION......Page 166
THE ORIGIN OF GEOMETRY......Page 175
UP FROM THE LEBENSWELT 69......Page 177
LANGUAGE AND THE RISE OF NON-SUBJECTIVE TRUTH......Page 178
THE POSSIBILITY OF A HISTORICAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF MATHEMATICS......Page 181
THE INFINITE IDEA OF GOD......Page 184
CONCLUSION......Page 194
PART II Between phenomenology and structuralism......Page 197
THE DOUBLE SEANCE......Page 200
CHAPTER 6 A history of différance......Page 204
DIFFERENCE......Page 205
THE REHABILITATION OF WRITING......Page 211
DIFFÉRANCE: NEITHER A WORD NOR A CONCEPT......Page 215
FREUD’S SCENE......Page 217
THE UNCONSCIOUS......Page 221
PSYCHOANALYTICAL DIFFERENCE......Page 225
THE LETTER A......Page 229
CONCLUSION......Page 234
CHAPTER 7 L’ambiguité du concours: The deconstruction of commentary and interpretation in Speech and Phenomena......Page 235
THE AGREGATION DE PHILOSOPHIE......Page 238
PEDAGOGY AND RESEARCH: THE CONFLICTING DEMANDS OF THE AGREGATION......Page 244
TEACHING TO THE TEST......Page 248
DERRIDA AND THE AGREGATION......Page 253
SPEECH AND PHENOMENA......Page 257
CONCLUSION......Page 270
CHAPTER 8 The ends of Man: Reading and writing at the ENS......Page 273
MARXISM AND THE RISE OF THE ALTHUSSERIANS......Page 274
ALTHUSSERIAN ANTIHUMANISM......Page 279
DERRIDA’S ANTIHUMANISM......Page 281
THE GROUPE SPINOZA......Page 287
THE TURN TO STRUCTURALISM......Page 291
GRAMMATOLOGY: A SCIENCE OF WRITING......Page 297
CONCLUSION......Page 307
Epilogue......Page 309
DERRIDA: WE REVOLUTIONARIES......Page 311
Bibliography......Page 320
Index......Page 333
IDEAS IN CONTEXT......Page 341