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Language, Discourse, Society Series Editors: Stephen Heath, Colin MacCabe and Denise Riley Selected published titles: James Wilkes A FRACTURED LANDSCAPE OF MODERNITY Culture and Conflict in the Isle of Purbeck Andreas Vrahimis ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN ANALYTIC AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY John Twyning FORMS OF ENGLISH HISTORY IN LITERATURE, LANDSCAPE, AND ARCHITECTURE Regenia Gagnier INDIVIDUALISM, DECADENCE AND GLOBALIZATION On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859–1920 Jennifer Keating-Miller LANGUAGE, IDENTITY AND LIBERATION IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH LITERATURE Matthew Taunton FICTIONS OF THE CITY Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris Laura Mulvey VISUAL AND OTHER PLEASURES 2ND EDITION Peter de Bolla and Stefan H. Uhlig (editors) AESTHETICS AND THE WORK OF ART Adorno, Kafka, Richter Misha Kavka REALITY TELEVISION, AFFECT AND INTIMACY Reality Matters Rob White FREUD’S MEMORY Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body Teresa de Lauretis FREUD’S DRIVE: PSYCHOANALYSIS, LITERATURE AND FILM Mark Nash SCREEN THEORY CULTURE Richard Robinson NARRATIVES OF THE EUROPEAN BORDER A History of Nowhere Lyndsey Stonebridge THE WRITING OF ANXIETY Imaging Wartime in Mid-Century British Culture Ashley Tauchert ROMANCING JANE AUSTEN Narrative, Realism and the Possibility of a Happy Ending Reena Dube SATYAJIT RAY’S THE CHESS PLAYERS AND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY Culture, Labour and the Value of Alterity John Anthony Tercier THE CONTEMPORARY DEATHBED The Ultimate Rush Erica Sheen and Lorna Hutson LITERATURE, POLITICS AND LAW IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND Jean-Jacques Lecercle and Denise Riley THE FORCE OF LANGUAGE Geoff Gilbert BEFORE MODERNISM WAS Modern History and the Constituency of Writing Stephen Heath, Colin MacCabe and Denise Riley (editors) THE LANGUAGE, DISCOURSE, SOCIETY READER Michael O’Pray FILM, FORM AND PHANTASY Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics James A. Snead, edited by Kara Keeling, Colin MacCabe and Cornel West RACIST TRACES AND OTHER WRITINGS European Pedigrees/African Contagions Patrizia Lombardo CITIES, WORDS AND IMAGES Colin MacCabe JAMES JOYCE AND THE REVOLUTION OF THE WORD Second edition Moustapha Safouan SPEECH OR DEATH? Language as Social Order: A Psychoanalytic Study Jean-Jacques Lecercle DELEUZE AND LANGUAGE Piers Gray, edited by Colin MacCabe and Victoria Rothschild STALIN ON LINGUISTICS AND OTHER ESSAYS Geoffrey Ward STATUTES OF LIBERTY The New York School of Poets Moustapha Safouan JACQUES LACAN AND THE QUESTION OF PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING (translated and introduced by Jacqueline Rose) Stanley Shostak THE DEATH OF LIFE The Legacy of Molecular Biology Language, Discourse, Society Series Standing Order ISBN 978–0–333–71482–9 (hardback) 978–0–333–80332–5 (paperback) (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and one of the ISBNs quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Encounters between Analytic and Continental Philosophy Andreas Vrahimis University of Cyprus © Andreas Vrahimis 2013 Cover image © Orestis Lambrou 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-29019-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. 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P algrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries ISBN 978-1-349-45045-9 ISBN 978-1-137-29020-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137290205 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Ἰ δ ὼ ν δ έ ποτε δ ύ ο τιν ὰ ς φιλοσ ό φους κομιδ ῇ ἀ παιδε ύ τως ἐ ν ζητ ή σει ἐ ρ ί ζοντας κ α ὶ τ ὸ ν μ ὲ ν ἄ τοπα ἐ ρωτ ῶ ντα , τ ὸ ν δ ὲ ο ὐ δ ὲ ν π ρ ὸ ς λ ό γον ἀ ποκριν ό μενον , o ὐ δοκε ῖ ὑ μ ῖ ν , ἔ φη , ὦ φ ί λοι , ὁ μ ὲ ν ἕ τερος το ύ των τρ ά γον ἀ μ έ λγειν , ὁ δ ὲ α ὐ τ ῷ κ ό σκινον ὑ ποτιθ έ ναι . Lucian, Life of Demonax , 28. This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements x Chronology xi Introduction 1 1. Frege, Husserl and the Future of Philosophy 8 1. Psychologismus-Streit 8 2. Husserl and Frege, the grandfathers 11 3. The question of influence 14 4. Contra psychologismus 16 a) Frege’s critique of ‘psychological logic’ 1 8 b) Husserl’s formulation of anti-psychologism 2 1 5. The crisis and its aftermath 24 2. Questioning Metaphysics in Weimar Germany: Carnap, Heidegger, Nonsense 31 1. Disputation at Davos 31 2. Neo-Kantianism and the interpretation of Kant 32 3. The ‘end’ of Neo-Kantianism during the Heidegger-Cassirer dispute 37 4. Further remarks on the historic background to the disputation 39 5. Heidegger’s interpretation of Kant 41 6. Carnap’s encounter with Heidegger 46 7. Carnap’s ‘metaphysics’ 48 8. Is Heidegger a metaphysician? 50 9. Heidegger’s nothing 51 1 0. Heidegger’s logic 53 1 1. Logic, praxis and ontology 55 1 2. Learning to express one’s feelings without metaphysics 60 1 3. Music lessons for metaphysicians 64 1 4. Overcoming first principles 65 1 5. What does ‘nothing’ mean? 68 vii viii Contents 16. Contradictions 7 1 17. Confrontation 72 18. Carnap and Heidegger’s shared background 77 19. Husserl’s influence on Carnap 79 20. Metaphysics and politics 84 3. Was There a Sun before Men Existed?: Ayer, Sartre, Bataille, and Merleau-Ponty 87 1. A pornographer, a phenomenologist and a logical positivist walk into a bar 87 2. Ayer’s criticism of Heidegger’s ‘Das Nichts’ and the British reception of Logical Positivism 89 3. Ayer’s criticism of Sartre’s le n é ant 91 4. Ayer encountering Merleau-Ponty 96 5. And they ask the barman, ‘Was there a sun before men existed?’ 98 6. Ayer’s response: the question of empiricism 101 7. The abyss stares back at Bataille 103 8. Unknowing the nothing 106 4. ‘La Philosophie Analytique’ at Royaumont: Gilbert Ryle’s Ambivalent Phenomenology 110 1. The battle of Royaumont 110 2. Continental ‘analysts’, Anglo-Saxon ‘continentals’ 111 3. ‘Ryle’s three Austrian rail-stations and one Chinese game of chance’ 114 4. Ryle’s sympathetic articles on phenomenology 118 5. Phenomenology and meta-philosophy 119 6. Systematically misleading expressions, or how to sharpen Ryle’s razor 121 7. Shaving Husserl’s beard 123 8. Rylean phenomenology 125 9. Husserl’s method for detecting ‘category mistakes’ 131 1 0. Analysis and Husserl’s meta-philosophy 133 1 1. Analysis v. Mistress Science 1 36 1 2. Phenomenology and The Concept of Mind 139 1 3. Fr. Van Breda’s response to Ryle 143 1 4. Merleau-Ponty and the borders of the continent 148 Contents ix 5. Derrida and Searle: The Abyss Stares Back? 1 60 1. Balliol, 1967 160 2. Austin and phenomenology 163 3. Derrida’s Austin 166 4. Searle’s reply to Derrida 171 5. Questioning the ‘confrontation between two prominent philosophical traditions’ 1 74 6. Forces and fronts 178 7. In whose name? 180 6. Conclusion 182 Notes 184 Bibliography 223 Index 251
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