Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative

In this path-breaking study Christopher Norris proposes a transformed understanding of the much-exaggerated differences between analytic and continental philosophy. While keeping the analytic tradition squarely in view his book focuses on the work of Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou, two of the most original and significant figures in the recent history of ideas. Norris argues that these thinkers have decisively reconfigured the terrain of contemporary philosophy and, between them, pointed a way beyond some of those seemingly intractable issues that have polarised debate on both sides of the notional rift between the analytic and continental traditions. In particular his book sets out to show - against the received analytic wisdom - that continental philosophy has its own analytic resources and is capable of bringing some much-needed fresh insight to bear on problems in philosophy of language, logic and mathematics. Norris provides not only a unique comparative account of Derrida's and Badiou's work but also a remarkably wide-ranging assessment of their joint contribution to philosophy's current - if widely resisted - potential for self-transformation.Table of ContentAcknowledgments \ Introduction \ 1. Diagonals: Truth-Procedures in Derrida and Badiou \ 2. Badiou: Truth, Ethics and the Formal Imperative \ 3. Deconstruction, Logic and “Ordinary Language”: Derrida on the Limits of Thought \ 4. Tractatus Mathematico-Politicus: Badiou’s Being and Event \ 5. Of Supplementarity: Derrida on Truth, Language, and Deviant Logic \ 6. Summa Pro Mathematica: Further Perspectives on Being and Event \ Notes \ Index of NamesBiographical NoteChristopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff, Wales, UK.A challenge to the inherently hostile relationship between analytic and continental philosophy through the work of Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou.Now Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy; for up-to-date details of titles published after September 2012 and for a series description click here. Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy presents cutting-edge scholarship in the field of modern European thought. The wholly original arguments, perspectives and research findings in titles in this series make it an important and stimulating resource for students and academics from across the discipline.Norris is a world-leading authority on Derrida and a highly respected and renowned academicPresents a unique and up-to-date study of Derrida and BadiouProposes a radical rethink of the relationship between analytic and continental philosophy