Christopher Norris (critic)
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"Now and again somebody like Christopher Norris may, in a pious moment, attempt to "recuperate" a particularly brilliant old-style reputation by claiming its owner as a New New Critic avant la lettre - Empson in this case, now to be thought of as having, in his "great theoretical summa," The Structure of Complex Words, anticipated deconstruction. The grumpy old man repudiated this notion with his habitual scorn, calling the work of Derrida (or, as he preferred to call him, "Nerrida") "very disgusting"" --Kermode, Pleasure, Change, and the Canon) |
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Christopher Charles Norris (born 6 November 1947) is a British philosopher and literary critic.
Career
Norris completed his PhD in English at University College London in 1975. After an early career in literary and music criticism (during the late 1970s, he wrote for the now-defunct magazine Records and Recording), Norris moved in 1991 to the Cardiff Philosophy Department. In 1997, he was awarded the title of Distinguished Research Professor in the Cardiff School of English, Communication & Philosophy. He has also held fellowships and visiting appointments at a number of institutions, including the University of California, Berkeley, the City University of New York, Aarhus University, and Dartmouth College.
He is one of the world's leading scholars on deconstruction, and the work of Jacques Derrida. He has written numerous books and papers on literary theory, continental philosophy, philosophy of music, philosophy of language and philosophy of science. More recently, he has been focussing on the work of Alain Badiou in relation with both the analytic tradition (particularly analytic philosophy of mathematics) and with the philosophy of Derrida.
Selected works
- Theory and Practice
- Against Relativism
- New Idols of the Cave
- Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals & the Gulf War
- The Contest of Faculties: Philosophy and Theory After Deconstruction
- Derrida (Fontana Modern Masters)
- What's Wrong with Postmodernism
- Deconstruction: Theory and Practice. London; New York: Methuen, 1982
- *Inside the Myth: Orwell, Views from the Left (Ed). London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1984
- The Contest of Faculties: Philosophy and Theory After Deconstruction. 1985
- Derrida (Fontana Modern Masters). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987
- What's Wrong with Postmodernism: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990
- Spinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991
- Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals, and the Gulf War. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1992
- Resources of Realism: Truth, Meaning, and Interpretation. Palgrave, 1997
- Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction, and Critical Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997
- New Idols of the Cave: On the Limits of Anti-realism. Manchester University Press, 1997
- Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics. London; New York: Routledge, 2000
- Minding the Gap: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Two Traditions. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000
- Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-realism and Response-dependence. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002
- Platonism, music and the listener's share. London: Continuum, 2006
- Badiou's Being and Event: A reader's guide. London; New York: Continuum, 2009
- Re-thinking the Cogito. Naturalism, Rationalism and the Venture of Thought. London; New York: Continuum, 2010
- Derrida, Badiou, and the Formal Imperative. Continuum, 2012
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