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