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.

1 Education
2 Teaching positions
3 On deconstructon
4 Works
5 Translations
6 External links
7 See also

[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.

[edit] Works

Late Lyotard, 2005
Deconstruction is Not What You Think..., 2005
Open Book/Livre Ouvert, 2005
Other Analyses: Reading Philosophy, 2005
Frontiers: Kant, Hegel, Frege, Wittgenstein, 2003
Frontières kantiennes, (ISBN 2-7186-0523-5) 2000
Interrupting Derrida, (ISBN 0-415-22427-6) 2000
Legislations: the Politics of Deconstruction, (ISBN 0-86091-668-5) 1995
Dudding: des noms de Rousseau, (ISBN 2-7186-0389-5) 1991
Jacques Derrida, (ISBN 0-226-04262-6) 1991, w/ Jacques Derrida
Lyotard: Writing the Event, (ISBN 0-521-30246-3) 1988, reprinted as ebook, 2005
Sententiousness and the Novel: Laying Down the Law in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction, (ISBN 0-521-30246-3) 1985, reprinted as ebook, 2005
Post-structuralism and the Question of History, (ISBN 0-521-36780-8) (ed.), 1983, w/ Derrick Attridge and Robert Young

[edit] Translations

Veils, (ISBN 0-8047-3795-9) Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous, 2001
Jacques Derrida, (ISBN 0-226-04262-6) Jacques Derrida and Geoffrey Bennington, 1993
The Inhuman: Talks on Time, (ISBN 0-8047-2008-8) Jean-François Lyotard, 1991, w/ Rachel Bowlby
Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language, (ISBN 0-415-03194-X) Daniel Ferrer, 1990, w/ Rachel Bowlby
Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question, (ISBN 0-226-14319-8) Jacques Derrida, 1989, w/ Rachel Bowlby
The Truth in Painting, (ISBN 0-226-14324-4) Jacques Derrida, 1987, w/ Ian McLeod
The Postmodern Condition, (UK ISBN 0-7190-1450-6) (US ISBN 0-8166-1173-4) Jean-François Lyotard, 1984, w/ Brian Massumi