Christopher Norris (critic)
Christopher Charles Norris is a British philosopher and literary critic.Career
Norris completed his PhD in English at University College London in 1975. After an early career in literary and music criticism, Norris moved in 1991 to the Cardiff Philosophy Department. In 1997, he was awarded the title of Distinguished Research Professor in the Cardiff School of English, Communication & Philosophy. 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, Aarhus University, 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, philosophy of music, philosophy of language and philosophy of science. More recently, he has been focussing on the work of Alain Badiou in relation with both the analytic tradition and with the philosophy of Derrida.Selected works
- Theory and Practice
- Against Relativism
- New Idols of the Cave
- Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals & the Gulf War
- The Contest of Faculties: Philosophy and Theory After Deconstruction
- Derrida
- What's Wrong with Postmodernism
- Deconstruction: Theory and Practice. London; New York: Methuen, 1982
- *. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1984
- The Contest of Faculties: Philosophy and Theory After Deconstruction. 1985
- Derrida. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987
- What's Wrong with Postmodernism: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990
- Spinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991
- Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals, and the Gulf War. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1992
- Resources of Realism: Truth, Meaning, and Interpretation. Palgrave, 1997
- Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction, and Critical Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997
- New Idols of the Cave: On the Limits of Anti-realism. Manchester University Press, 1997
- Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics. London; New York: Routledge, 2000
- Minding the Gap: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Two Traditions. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000
- Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-realism and Response-dependence. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002
- Platonism, music and the listener's share. London: Continuum, 2006
- Badiou's Being and Event: A reader's guide. London; New York: Continuum, 2009
- Re-thinking the Cogito. Naturalism, Rationalism and the Venture of Thought. London; New York: Continuum, 2010
- Derrida, Badiou, and the Formal Imperative. Continuum, 2012
