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.

Author: Raoul Moati
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 03/25/2014
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780231166713