Introduction: The Analytic Engagement with Continental Philosophy

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Notes

1 ‘Simon Glendenning on Philosophy’s Two Cultures (Analytic and Continental)’, Philosophy Bites, 27 May 2013, accessed 12 January 2014 <http://philosophybites.com/2013/05/simon-glendinning-on-philosophys-two-cultures-analytic-and-continental.html>.

2 Plato, The Republic, trans. G. M. A. Grube and C. D. C. Reeve (Cambridge, MA: Hackett, 1992), p. 350: d3-e3.

3 Thomas Baldwin, ‘Presence, Truth, and Authenticity’, in Simon Glendenning and Robert Eaglestone (eds) Derrida’s Legacies (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 107–17, at p. 107.

4 Derek Attridge and Thomas Baldwin, ‘Jacques Derrida: Deep Thinker or Truth-thief?’, The Guardian, 11 October 2004, accessed 25 February 2010 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/oct/11/guardianobituaries.france>.

5 Jonathan Kandell, ‘Jacques Derrida, Abstruse Theorist, Dies at 74,’ The New York Times, 10 October 2004, accessed 8 June 2013 <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/obituaries/10derrida.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&position=>.

6 Richard Gaskin, Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Literary Humanism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

7 Mitchell Stephens, ‘Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction’, New York Times, 23 January 1994, accessed 15 October 2013 <http://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/Jacques%20Derrida%20-%20NYT%20-%20page.htm>.

8 Kelly Oliver, Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013).

9 Kelly Oliver, Technologies of Life and Death, p. 2.

10 The Beast and the Sovereign is the title of Derrida’s last two Paris seminars, held from 2001 to 2002 and 2002 to 2003, but only recently translated into English (two volumes, in 2009 and 2011, respectively).

11 Oliver, Technologies of Life and Death, p. 190.

12 I discuss this criticism in my review of Oliver: Journal of Applied Philosophy 31, pp. 217–219.

13 Richard Gaskin, Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Literary Humanism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 333. I explain this point in my review of Gaskin (British Journal of Aesthetics 54 [forthcoming 2014]).