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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Derrida/Searle
• Author: Raoul Moati
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9780231166713
• ISBN: 0231166710
• ID: 02467733
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 184 g
• Dimensions: 178 × 140 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. March 2014

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