Geoffrey Bennington
Encyclopedia
Geoffrey Bennington is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory University
, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School
in Saas-Fee
(Switzerland), as well as a member of the International College of Philosophy. He is a literary critic and philosopher, best known as an expert on deconstruction
and the works of Jacques Derrida
and Jean-François Lyotard
. He has translated many of Derrida's works into English.
He has translated a number of works by Derrida and others, and is General Editor (with Peggy Kamuf
) of the English translations of Derrida's posthumously published seminars.
He has at times tried to engage members of the British press hostile to Derrida's work and has also attempted to explicate the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy
, which has generally had difficulties receiving work by Derrida and others.
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School
European Graduate School
The European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland is a privately funded graduate school founded by the non-profit European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies. Its German name is Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien...
in Saas-Fee
Saas-Fee
Saas-Fee is the main village in the Saastal, or the Saas Valley, and is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland...
(Switzerland), as well as a member of the International College of Philosophy. He is a literary critic and philosopher, best known as an expert on deconstruction
Deconstruction
Deconstruction is a term introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1967 book Of Grammatology. Although he carefully avoided defining the term directly, he sought to apply Martin Heidegger's concept of Destruktion or Abbau, to textual reading...
and the works of Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...
and Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition...
. He has translated many of Derrida's works into English.
Teaching positions
He took up a teaching appointment at the University of Sussex at Brighton, where he created an M.A. program in Modern French Thought and twice served as chair of the French department. Since arriving at Emory in 2001, he has chaired both the French and the Comparative Literature Departments.Publications
He co-wrote the book Jacques Derrida with Derrida. Bennington's contribution, "Derridabase", is an attempt to provide a comprehensive explication of Derrida's work. "Derridabase" appears on the upper two-thirds of the book's pages, while Derrida's contribution, "Circumfession", is written on the lower third of each page. Derrida's "Circumfession" is, among other things, intended to show how Derrida's work exceeds Bennington's explication. Many of Bennington's essays on Derrida collected in Legislations, Interrupting Derrida, and Not Half No End, have criticized explanations of Derrida's work attempted by other scholars. Bennington has also written two monographs on Lyotard, Writing the Event and Late Lyotard, and has also written extensively on Rousseau and Kant, developing original accounts of the "paradox of the legislator" in the former and "interrupted teleology" in the latter. He is currently writing a deconstructive account of political philosophy.He has translated a number of works by Derrida and others, and is General Editor (with Peggy Kamuf
Peggy Kamuf
Peggy Kamuf is the Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is one of the primary English translators of the works of Jacques Derrida...
) of the English translations of Derrida's posthumously published seminars.
He has at times tried to engage members of the British press hostile to Derrida's work and has also attempted to explicate the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy
Analytic philosophy
Analytic philosophy is a generic term for a style of philosophy that came to dominate English-speaking countries in the 20th century...
, which has generally had difficulties receiving work by Derrida and others.
Works
- Géographie et autres lectures, (ISBN 9782705680206) 2011
- Not Half No End: Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of Jacques Derrida, (ISBN 9780748639854) 2010
- Late Lyotard, 2005
- Deconstruction is Not What You Think..., 2005
- Open Book/Livre Ouvert, 2005
- Other Analyses: Reading Philosophy, 2005
- Frontiers: Kant, Hegel, Frege, Wittgenstein, 2003
- Frontières kantiennes, (ISBN 2-7186-0523-5) 2000
- Interrupting Derrida, (ISBN 0-415-22427-6) 2000
- Legislations: the Politics of Deconstruction, (ISBN 0-86091-668-5) 1995
- Dudding: des noms de Rousseau, (ISBN 2-7186-0389-5) 1991
- Jacques Derrida, (ISBN 0-226-04262-6) 1991, w/ Jacques Derrida
- Lyotard: Writing the Event, (ISBN 0-521-30246-3) 1988, reprinted as ebook, 2005
- Sententiousness and the Novel: Laying Down the Law in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction, (ISBN 0-521-30246-3) 1985, reprinted as ebook, 2005
- Post-structuralism and the Question of History, (ISBN 0-521-36780-8) (ed.), 1983, w/ Derek Attridge and Robert Young
Translations
- The Beast and the Sovereign, I (ISBN 9780226144283) Jacques Derrida , 2009
- Veils, (ISBN 0-8047-3795-9) Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous, 2001
- Jacques Derrida, (ISBN 0-226-04262-6) Jacques Derrida and Geoffrey Bennington, 1993
- The Inhuman: Talks on Time, (ISBN 0-8047-2008-8) Jean-François Lyotard, 1991, w/ Rachel Bowlby
- Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language, (ISBN 0-415-03194-X) Daniel Ferrer, 1990, w/ Rachel Bowlby
- Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question, (ISBN 0-226-14319-8) Jacques Derrida, 1989, w/ Rachel Bowlby
- The Truth in Painting, (ISBN 0-226-14324-4) Jacques Derrida, 1987, w/ Ian McLeod
- The Postmodern ConditionThe Postmodern ConditionThe Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge is a short but influential philosophy book by Jean-François Lyotard in which he analyzes the epistemology of postmodern culture as the end of 'grand narratives' or metanarratives, which he considers a quintessential feature of modernity. The book was...
, (UK ISBN 0-7190-1450-6) (US ISBN 0-8166-1173-4) Jean-François Lyotard, 1984, w/ Brian Massumi
External links
- Home page at Emory
- Geoffrey Bennington faculty profile @ European Graduate SchoolEuropean Graduate SchoolThe European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland is a privately funded graduate school founded by the non-profit European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies. Its German name is Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien...
. (Biography, bibliography and articles) - Electronic publications