Geoffrey Bennington

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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, best known as an expert on deconstruction and the works of Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard. He has translated many of Derrida's works into English.

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[edit] Education

Bennington received his B.A., M.A., and D.Phil. from Oxford University.

[edit] Teaching positions

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.

[edit] 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. 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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