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This book examines two mid-nineteenth century thinkers - the
Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter and the French architect Eugene E.
Viollet-le-Duc - who imagined cultural history on the model of
earth history: as a history of objects to be restored and worlds to
be reconstructed. The nascent field of geology shaped cultural
thought; their conservationism, informed by erosion, envisions a
future of restorative renewal.
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. The key issue,
Moati argues, is not whether "intentionality," a concept derived
from Husserl's phenomenology, can or cannot be linked to Austin's
speech-acts as defined in his groundbreaking How to Do Things with
Words, but rather the emphasis Searle placed on the performativity
and determined pragmatic values of Austin's speech-acts, whereas
Derrida insisted on the trace of writing behind every act of speech
and the iterability of signs in different contexts.
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. The key issue,
Moati argues, is not whether "intentionality," a concept derived
from Husserl's phenomenology, can or cannot be linked to Austin's
speech-acts as defined in his groundbreaking How to Do Things with
Words, but rather the emphasis Searle placed on the performativity
and determined pragmatic values of Austin's speech-acts, whereas
Derrida insisted on the trace of writing behind every act of speech
and the iterability of signs in different contexts.
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