Derrida/searle - Deconstruction and Ordinary Language

Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech acts, or the performative, that Jacques Derrida and John R. Searle interpreted in fundamentally different ways. Their disagreement centered on the issue of intentionality, which Derrida understood phenomenologically and Searle read pragmatically. The controversy had profound implications for the development of contemporary philosophy, which, Moati argues, can profit greatly by returning to this classic debate. In this book, Moati systematically replays the historical encounter between Austin, Derrida, and Searle and the disruption that caused the lasting break between Anglo-American language philosophy and continental traditions of phenomenology and its deconstruction.

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"In its very violence, the debate between Jacques Derrida and John Searle was the proof of the gap that continues to separate the continental speculative tradition from its Anglo-Saxon analytic counterpart. Raoul Moati's book is much more than a review of the debate - he is part of the debate, bringing it to its philosophical conclusion. Sometimes, while reading his book, one has the feeling that Derrida and Searle engaged in their debate so that Moati could write his book on them, in the same way that, for Hegel, the Peloponnesian War was fought so that Thucydides could write his classic book on it." - Slavoj iek

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• Authors: Raoul Moati, Moati Raoul
• Assisted by: Jean-Michel Rabaté (Foreword), Timothy Attanucci (Translation), Attanucci Timothy (Translation), Maureen Chun (Translation), Maureen (The University of Hong Kong) Chun (Translation), Chun Maureen (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2014
• EAN: 9780231166713
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16671-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 176 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism