Geoffrey Bennington

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.

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1 Career
2 Works
3 Translations
4 External Links

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 rabincal 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.

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.

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See also: Geoffrey Bennington, Analytic philosophy, Deconstruction, Emory University, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Jürgen Habermas, Literary critic, Oxford University