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Derrida/Searle: Deconstruction and Ordinary Language

Derrida/Searle: Deconstruction and Ordinary Language

Moati, Raoul
Attanucci, Timothy
Chun, Maureen

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 0231166710
ISBN13: 9780231166713
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Mar 25 2014
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 6.90
Language: English

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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