Christopher Norris

Christopher Charles Norris (born 6 November 1947) 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 (during the late 1970s, he wrote for the now-defunct magazine Records and Recording), 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 (particularly analytic philosophy of mathematics) and with the philosophy of Derrida.

Selected works Deconstruction: Theory and Practice. London; New York: Methuen, 1982 Deconstructive Turn: Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1983/2010 Inside the Myth: Orwell, Views from the Left (Ed). London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1984 The Contest of Faculties: Philosophy and Theory After Deconstruction. 1985 Derrida (Fontana Modern Masters). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987 Paul de Man: Deconstruction and the Critique of the Aesthetic Ideology. Routledge, 1988/2009 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 Truth and the Ethics of Criticism. Manchester University Press, 1994. 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 Hilary Putnam: Realism, Reason, and the Uses of Uncertainty.. Manchester University Press, 2002 Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-realism and Response-dependence. 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 Philosophy Outside-in: A Critique of Academic Reason. Edinburgh University Press, 2013