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Geoffrey Bennington (born 1956) 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. Emory University is a Private university located in the metropolitan area of the city of Atlanta and in western unincorporated DeKalb County, The Collège international de philosophie (Ciph located in Paris ' 5th arrondissement, is a tertiary education institute placed under the trusteeship of the French He is a literary critic and philosopher, best known as an expert on deconstruction and the works of Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard. Literary criticism is the study discussion evaluation and interpretation of Literature. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Deconstruction is a term used in Philosophy, Literary criticism, and the Social sciences, popularised through its usage by Jacques Derrida in Jean-François Lyotard (ʒɑ̃ fʀɑ̃swa ljɔˈtaʀ August 10 1924 April 21 1998) was a French philosopher and literary He has translated many of Derrida's works into English.

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Education

Bennington received his B. A. , M. A. , and D. Phil. from Oxford University. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the

Teaching positions

He took up a teaching appointment at the University of Sussex at Brighton, where he created an M. The University of Sussex is a British Campus university which is situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, and is from Brighton 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 French and Comparative Literature Departments.

On deconstructon

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 have criticized explanations of Derrida's work attempted by other scholars. Bennington has also written a monograph-length study of Lyotard's work, Writing the Event.

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. Analytic philosophy (sometimes analytical philosophy) is a generic term for a style of Philosophy that came to dominate English-speaking countries in the 20th century 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. Jürgen Habermas (ˈjʏʁgən ˈhaːbɐmaːs born June 18, 1929 is a German Philosopher and Sociologist in the tradition of

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The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge (1979 is a short but influential Philosophy book by Jean-François Lyotard in which he analyses the This is a list of notable thinkers that have been influenced by Deconstruction.
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