Christopher Norris (critic)

Christopher Charles Norris (born 6 November 1947)^[1] is a British philosopher and literary critic.

Career

As of 2011 Prof. Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at Cardiff University. He completed his PhD in English at University College London in 1975, while Sir Frank Kermode served as the Lord Northcliffe Professor of modern English literature there.

After an early career in Literary Criticism, in 1991 Norris moved to the Cardiff Philosophy Department where, in 1997, he was awarded the title of Distinguished Research Professor. He has also held fellowships and visiting appointments at a number of institutions, including the University of California, Berkeley, the City University of New York and Dartmouth College.

He is one of the world's leading scholars on deconstruction, and the work of Jacques Derrida. He has written numerous books and papers on literary theory, continental philosophy and philosophy of science, and, more recently, he has been focussing on the work of Alain Badiou. Norris is considered a philosopher in his own right: 2003's Life After Theory featured an interview with Norris, placing him alongside Derrida as a significant contemporary author.

Selected works

• Theory and Practice
• Against Relativism
• New Idols of the Cave
• Uncritical Theory
• The Contest of Faculties: Philosophy and Theory After Deconstruction
• Derrida (Fontana Modern Masters)
• What's Wrong with Postmodernism
• Deconstruction: Theory and Practice
• Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics
• Minding the Gap: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Two Traditions
• Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-realism and Response-dependence
• Spinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory
• Resources of Realism: Truth, Meaning, and Interpretation
• Inside the Myth: Orwell, Views from the Left (Ed)
• Badiou's Being and Event
• Re-thinking the Cogito. Naturalism, Rationalism and the Venture of Thought

External links

• Christopher Norris’ webpage at Cardiff University
• Audio recording of Norris on the role of philosophy in relation to neuroscience at Cardiff 'Philosophy Cafe'

References

1. ^ "Christopher (Charles) Norris" (2002). Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. Retrieved on January 19, 2007.

See also

• List of thinkers influenced by deconstruction

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