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In the most wide-ranging history of phenomenology since Herbert
Spiegelberg's The Phenomenological Movement over fifty years ago,
Baring uncovers a new and unexpected force-Catholic
intellectuals-behind the growth of phenomenology in the early
twentieth century, and makes the case for the movement's catalytic
intellectual and social impact. Of all modern schools of thought,
phenomenology has the strongest claim to the mantle of
"continental" philosophy. In the first half of the twentieth
century, phenomenology expanded from a few German towns into a
movement spanning Europe. Edward Baring shows that credit for this
prodigious growth goes to a surprising group of early enthusiasts:
Catholic intellectuals. Placing phenomenology in historical
context, Baring reveals the enduring influence of Catholicism in
twentieth-century intellectual thought. Converts to the Real argues
that Catholic scholars allied with phenomenology because they
thought it mapped a path out of modern idealism-which they
associated with Protestantism and secularization-and back to
Catholic metaphysics. Seeing in this unfulfilled promise a bridge
to Europe's secular academy, Catholics set to work extending
phenomenology's reach, writing many of the first phenomenological
publications in languages other than German and organizing the
first international conferences on phenomenology. The Church even
helped rescue Edmund Husserl's papers from Nazi Germany in 1938.
But phenomenology proved to be an unreliable ally, and in debates
over its meaning and development, Catholic intellectuals
contemplated the ways it might threaten the faith. As a result,
Catholics showed that phenomenology could be useful for secular
projects, and encouraged its adoption by the philosophical
establishment in countries across Europe and beyond. Baring traces
the resonances of these Catholic debates in postwar Europe. From
existentialism, through the phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur and
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, to the speculative realism of the present,
European thought bears the mark of Catholicism, the original
continental philosophy.
Derrida's writings on the question of religion have played a
crucial role in the transformation of scholarly debate across the
globe. The Trace of God provides a compact introduction to this
debate. It considers Derrida's fraught relationship to Judaism and
his Jewish identity, broaches the question of Derrida's relation to
the Western Christian tradition, and examines both the points of
contact and the silences in Derrida's treatment of Islam.
Derrida's writings on the question of religion have played a
crucial role in the transformation of scholarly debate across the
globe. The Trace of God provides a compact introduction to this
debate. It considers Derrida's fraught relationship to Judaism and
his Jewish identity, broaches the question of Derrida's relation to
the Western Christian tradition, and examines both the points of
contact and the silences in Derrida's treatment of Islam.
Concept and Form is a two-volume monument to the work of the
philosophy journal the Cahiers pour l'Analyse (1966-69), the most
ambitious and radical collective project to emerge from French
structuralism. Inspired by their teachers Louis Althusser and
Jacques Lacan, the editors of the Cahiers sought to sever
philosophy from the interpretation of given meanings or
experiences, focusing instead on the mechanisms that structure
specific configurations of discourse, from the psychological and
ideological to the literary, scientific, and political. Adequate
analysis of the operations at work in these configurations, they
argue, helps prepare the way for their revolutionary
transformation. Volume One of Concept and Form translates some of
the most important theoretical texts from the Cahiers pour
l'Analyse; this second volume collects newly commissioned essays on
the journal, together with recent interviews with people who were
either members of its editorial board or associated with its
broader theoretical project. It aims to help reconstruct the
intellectual context of the Cahiers, and to assess its contemporary
theoretical legacy. Prefaced by an overview of the project's
rigorous investment in science and conceptual analysis, the volume
considers in particular the Cahiers' distinctive effort to link the
apparently incommensurable categories of 'structure' and 'subject',
so as to prepare for a new synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis.
Contributors include Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Edward Baring,
Jacques Bouveresse, Yves Duroux, Alain Grosrichard, Peter Hallward,
Adrian Johnston, Patrice Maniglier, Tracy McNulty, Jean-Claude
Milner, Knox Peden, Jacques Ranciere, Francois Regnault, and Slavoj
Zizek.
In this powerful study Edward Baring sheds fresh light on Jacques
Derrida, one of the most influential yet controversial
intellectuals of the twentieth century. Reading Derrida from a
historical perspective and drawing on new archival sources, The
Young Derrida and French Philosophy shows how Derrida's thought
arose in the closely contested space of post-war French
intellectual life, developing in response to Sartrian
existentialism, religious philosophy and the structuralism that
found its base at the Ecole Normale Superieure. In a history of the
philosophical movements and academic institutions of post-war
France, Baring paints a portrait of a community caught between
humanism and anti-humanism, providing a radically new
interpretation of the genesis of deconstruction and of one of the
most vibrant intellectual moments of modern times.
In this powerful new study Edward Baring sheds fresh light on
Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential yet controversial
intellectuals of the twentieth century. Reading Derrida from a
historical perspective and drawing on new archival sources, The
Young Derrida and French Philosophy shows how Derrida's thought
arose in the closely contested space of post-war French
intellectual life, developing in response to Sartrian
existentialism, religious philosophy and the structuralism that
found its base at the Ecole Normale Superieure. In a history of the
philosophical movements and academic institutions of post-war
France, Baring paints a portrait of a community caught between
humanism and anti-humanism, providing a radically new
interpretation of the genesis of deconstruction and of one of the
most vibrant intellectual moments of modern times."
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