Geoffrey Bennington

Geoffrey Bennington, born in 1956, is a prominent British philosopher and literary critic known for his expertise in deconstruction. He is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University in Georgia, USA, and also holds a professorship in Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Additionally, he is a member of the International College of Philosophy in Paris. Bennington is particularly recognized for his extensive work on the philosophies of Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard, including translating many of Derrida's seminal texts into English. His academic career includes teaching positions at the University of Sussex, where he developed an M.A. program in Modern French Thought, and later at Emory University, where he chaired both the French and Comparative Literature Departments. Bennington's publications delve deeply into deconstruction, political philosophy, and the works of thinkers like Rousseau and Kant, critically analyzing concepts such as the 'paradox of the legislator' and 'interrupted teleology'. He has also engaged with the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy.