Geoffrey Bennington is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory University, as well as a member of the International College of Philosophy. He is a literary critic and philosopher, perhaps best known as a scholar of Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard and general commentator on and participant in deconstruction. He has translated the work of Derrida and Lyotard into English. Emory University is a private university in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher of Jewish descent, most often referenced as the founder of deconstruction. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ...

Career

Bennington was born in the United Kingdom and received his B.A., M.A., and D.Phil. from Oxford University. 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. He wrote the "Derridabase," with Jacques Derrida for the book Jacques Derrida. "Derridabase" is an attempt to provide a comprehensive explication of Derrida's work and program, printed on the upper two-thirds of the pages. Derrida's contribution, "Circumfession," is written in the lower third of the page and attempts to show how Derrida's work exceeds the above explication, which Derrida was able to read in completed form before working on his piece. Derrida referred to Bennington as something of his rabinical explicator, and much of the rest of Bennington's work on Derrida attempts to draw out insufficiencies in the accounts of Derrida's work offered by other scholars. Bennington is also one of the few scholars to provide a monograph-length study of Lyotard's work. The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... University of Sussex Logo © University of Sussex The University of Sussex is an English campus university located near the East Sussex village of Falmer, near Brighton and Hove and on the edge of the South Downs. ...

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. Bennington has also attempted to facilitate a reconciliation between adherents of Jürgen Habermas and deconstruction by providing a sketch of deconstruction on terms accessible to them. Analytic philosophy is the dominant philosophical movement of English-speaking countries, although one of its founders, Gottlob Frege, was German, and another, Ludwig Wittgenstein, was Austrian. ... Habermas speaking with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, 2004 This article is about Jürgen Habermas. ...

Works

• 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 2718605235) 2000
• Interrupting Derrida, (ISBN 0415224276) 2000
• Legislations: the Politics of Deconstruction, (ISBN 0860916685) 1995
• Dudding: des noms de Rousseau, (ISBN 2718603895) 1991
• Jacques Derrida, (ISBN 0226042626) 1991, w/ Jacques Derrida
• Lyotard: Writing the Event, (ISBN 0521302463) 1988, reprinted as ebook, 2005
• Sententiousness and the Novel: Laying Down the Law in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction, (ISBN 0521302463) 1985, reprinted as ebook, 2005
• Post-structuralism and the Question of History, (ISBN 0521367808) (ed.), 1983, w/ Derrick Attridge and Robert Young

Translations

• Veils, (ISBN 0804737959) Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous, 2001
• Jacques Derrida, (ISBN 0226042626) Jacques Derrida and Geoffrey Bennington, 1993
• The Inhuman: Talks on Time, (ISBN 0804720088) Jean-François Lyotard, 1991, w/ Rachel Bowlby
• Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language, (ISBN 041503194X) Daniel Ferrer, 1990, w/ Rachel Bowlby
• Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question, (ISBN 0226143198) Jacques Derrida, 1989, w/ Rachel Bowlby
• The Truth in Painting, (ISBN 0226143244) Jacques Derrida, 1987, w/ Ian McLeod
• The Postmodern Condition, (UK ISBN 0719014506) (US ISBN 0816611734) Jean-François Lyotard, 1984, w/ Brian Massumi

External links

• "A Piece about Baudelaire and Barbara Johnson" (Word doc)
• "A Piece about Jean Nouvel" (Word doc)
• "A Piece about Philosophical Biography" (Word Doc)
• Emory announcement of appointment
• "Ex-Communication," an essay on Habermas (Word doc)
• Home page at Emory
• "Politics and Friendship: a Discussion with Jacques Derrida"
• Professorial Lecture given at Sussex (Word doc)
• Seulemonde interview