Christopher Norris

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According to Wikipedia, 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.

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The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction (1984) (643)
Untying the Text: A Post-Structuralist Reader (1983) (579)
Deconstruction: Theory and Practice. (1983) (541)
Linguistic Perspectives on Literature@@@The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation (1980) (252)
Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals and the Gulf War (1992) (167)
The Deconstruction (1989) (167)
What's Wrong with Postmodernism : Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy (1990) (160)
Wittgenstein and Derrida (1986) (155)
Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction, and Critical Theory (1997) (102)
The Truth About Postmodernism (1993) (84)
The Contest of Faculties : Philosophy and Theory after Deconstruction (1986) (65)
What''s wrong with postmodernism (1990) (55)
Paul de Man: Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology (1989) (50)
Deconstruction and the Interests of Theory (1988) (49)
Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics (2000) (47)
The Deconstructive Turn : Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy (1989) (45)
Reclaiming Truth: Contribution to a critique of cultural relativism (1998) (44)
Music and the Politics of Culture (1989) (41)
Spinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory (1991) (37)
Truth and the ethics of criticism (1994) (30)
On Noam Chomsky (1998) (29)
The deconstructive turn (1984) (24)
What is enlightenment? Kant according to Foucault (1994) (23)
Badiou's 'Being and Event': A Reader's Guide (2009) (21)
New Idols of the Cave: On the Limits of Anti-Realism (1997) (18)
Lost in the funhouse: Baudrillard and the politics of postmodernism (1989) (18)
Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-Realism and Response-Dependence (2002) (16)
Resources of Realism: Prospects for ‘Post-Analytic’ Philosophy (1997) (16)
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault: “What is enlightenment?”: Kant and Foucault (1994) (16)
Shostakovich: The Man and His Music (1983) (15)
Inside the Myth: Orwell: Views from the Left (1987) (15)
Law, Deconstruction, and the Resistance to Theory (1988) (15)
Hilary Putnam: Realism, Reason and the Uses of Uncertainty (2002) (15)
Utopian deconstruction: Ernst Bloch, Paul de Man and the politics of music (1988) (14)
On Truth and Meaning: Language, Logic and the Grounds of Belief (2006) (13)
Deconstruction, Postmodernism and Philosophy: Habermas and Derrida (1988) (13)
Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism (2003) (12)
Recensioni/Reviews-Minding the Gap. Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Two Traditions (2000) (12)
Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity' (2000) (12)
Post-structuralist Readings of English Poetry (1987) (11)
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (2001) (11)
Quantum Nonlocality and the Challenge to Scientific Realism (2000) (10)
Fiction, Philosophy and Literary Theory: Will the Real Saul Kripke Please Stand Up? (2007) (10)
The Importance of Empson (II): The Criticism (1985) (10)
Saussure, linguistic theory and philosophy of science (2004) (9)
Deconstruction's Scruples: The Politics of Enlightened Critique@@@The Contest of Faculties: Philosophy and Theory after Deconstruction@@@The Deconstructive Turn: Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy (1987) (9)
William Empson and the Philosophy of Literary Criticism (2014) (9)
Margins of Philosophy. By Jacques Derrida (Trans. Alan Bass). The University of Chicago Press. 1982. 330 pp. (1984) (8)
McDowell on Kant : Redrawing the bounds of sense (2000) (8)
Fictions of Authority: Narrative and Viewpoint in Kierkegaard's Writing (1983) (8)
Deconstruction, Anti–Realism and Philosophy of Science—an interview with Christopher Norris (2002) (7)
Limited Think: How Not to Read Derrida (1991) (7)
Post-Modernism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2000) (7)
Sexed equations and vexed physicists (1999) (7)
Humanizing de Man (1989) (7)
Language, Logic and Epistemology: A Modal-Realist Approach (2004) (6)
What Strong Sociologists can Learn from Critical Realism (2014) (6)
Theory of Language and the Language of literature (1978) (6)
Twentieth-century historical, philosophical and psychological perspectives (2001) (6)
“Nuclear criticism” ten years on (1994) (6)
Against postmodernism: Derrida, Kant and nuclear politics (1987) (5)
Platonism, Music And the Listener's Share (2006) (5)
Post-war Italian intellectual culture: from Marxism to cultural studies (2001) (5)
Criticism, aesthetics and analytic philosophy (2001) (5)
Literary criticism and the history of ideas (2001) (5)
Philosophy Outside-In: A Critique of Academic Reason (2013) (5)
Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative (2012) (5)
Re-Thinking the Cogito: Naturalism, Reason and the Venture of Thought (2010) (5)
the "end of ideology" revisited: the gulf war, postmodernism and realpolitik (1991) (5)
Ambiguities of the third way: realism, anti-realism, and response-dependence (2002) (5)
Derrida on Rousseau: Deconstruction as Philosophy of Logic (2004) (4)
Deconstruction and Feminist Literary Theory (1984) (4)
Keywords , Ideology and Critical Theory (1997) (4)
On Truth And Meaning (2006) (4)
Deconstructing Anti-Realism: Quantum Mechanics and Interpretation Theory (1997) (4)
Deconstruction, Postmodernism and Philosophy of Science: Some Epistemo-critical Bearings (1998) (4)
PAUL DE MAN AND THE CRITIQUE OF AESTHETIC IDEOLOGY (1988) (3)
Old Themes for New Times: Basildon Revisited (1993) (3)
Literary Criticism and Philosophy (Yearbook of Comparative Criticism, Volume 10) (1985) (3)
Staying for an answer (2004) (3)
Remembering Frank Kermode (2011) (3)
Response-Dependence (2003) (3)
Theory-Change and the Logic of Enquiry: New Bearings in Philosophy of Science (1999) (3)
Deconstruction against Itself: Derrida and Nietzsche@@@The Ear of the Other: Texts and Discussions (1986) (3)
Ontology According to van Fraassen: Some Problems with Constructive Empiricism (1997) (3)
Frankfurt on Second-Order Desires and the Concept of a Person (2010) (3)
Truth in Derrida (2015) (3)
Historicism and historical criticism (2001) (3)
Sport, Craft Or Technique? The Case of competitive aeromodelling (2011) (3)
Alain Badiou: truth, ethics and the formal imperative (2009) (2)
Will the real Saul Kripke please stand up? Fiction, philosophy and possible worlds (2003) (2)
Spanish and Spanish American poetics and criticism (2001) (2)
William Empson: The Critical Achievement (2009) (2)
On the Limits of "Undecidability": Quantum Physics, Deconstruction, and Anti-realism (1998) (2)
Image and Parable: Readings of Walter Benjamin (2011) (2)
Adorno and the early Frankfurt School (2001) (2)
Language, Logic and Epistemology (2004) (2)
Derrida At Yale: The "Deconstructive Moment" in Modernist Poetics (2011) (2)
Home Thoughts from Abroad: Derrida, Austin, and the Oxford Connection (2011) (2)
Should Philosophers Take Lessons from Quantum Theory (1999) (2)
Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein's Philosophy (2020) (2)
Deconstruction and the Philosophy of Language@@@The Deconstructive Turn: Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy (1986) (2)
Putnam's Progress: Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism (1999) (2)
Deconstruction, Analysis, and Deviant Logic: Derrida at the Limits of Thought (2006) (2)
Ethics, Autonomy, and Self-Invention: A Reply to Patrick Shaw (2000) (2)
‘That the truest philosophy is the most feigning’: Austin on the margins of literature (1983) (2)
William Empson: Introduction: Empson as literary theorist: from Ambiguity to Complex Words and beyond (1993) (2)
DECONSTRUCTION, NAMING AND NECESSITY: SOME LOGICAL OPTIONS (1984) (2)
Limited Think: How Not to Read Derrida@@@Limited Inc.@@@Against Deconstruction (1990) (2)
Post-Structuralism: What’s In It For Philosophers? (1999) (2)
Ontological relativity and meaning‐variance: A critical‐constructive review (1997) (2)
Marxism and poststructuralism (2001) (2)
Literary criticism and psychoanalytic positions (2001) (1)
Putnam on Quantum Theory and Three-Valued Logic Is It (Realistically) an Option? (2002) (1)
TALKING TO OURSELVES? ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE (2014) (1)
Deconstruction: An Assessment (1984) (1)
Paul de Man (Routledge Revivals) : Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology (2009) (1)
Theodor W. Adorno, Philosophy of Modern Music (1976) (1)
Reply to Jeff Malpas: on truth, realism, changing one's mind about Davidson (not Heidegger), and related topics (2004) (1)
Deconstruction and Epistemology: Bachelard, Derrida, de Man (1998) (1)
Deconstruction, Musicology and Analysis: Some Recent Approaches in Critical Review (1999) (1)
Ethics and literary criticism (2001) (1)
Postmodernism, Politics, and the Assault on Truth (2004) (1)
Small Change When We’Are to Bodies Gone?: Response to Gary Tomlinson (2013) (1)
1 Analytic Philosophy in Another Key: Derrida on Language, Truth and Logic (2007) (1)
The Blank and the Die: Some Dilemmas of Post‐Empiricism (2006) (1)
Reason, Rhetoric, Theory: Empson and de Man (1993) (1)
Why strong sociologists abhor a vacuum (1997) (1)
Roland Barthes: the view from here (1978) (1)
Literary theory, science and philosophy of science (2001) (1)
Deconstruction, Science, and the Logic of Enquiry (2010) (1)
The Margins of Meaning (1980) (1)
Supplementarity and deviant logics : Derrida contra quine (1998) (1)
Anti‐Realism and Relativism (2011) (1)
Deconstruction and the Limits of Sense (1980) (1)
Beyond Metaphysics: the hermeneutic circle in contemporary continental philosophy (1986) (1)
Meaning, truth and causal explanation: the 'Humean Condition' revisited (2008) (1)
The Critical Difference: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Reading (1983) (1)
On the Scope and Limits of Virtue-Based Epistemology (2009) (1)
Philosophy and literary theory: The work of Donald Davidson (1988) (1)
"What are the questions that fascinate you?" "What do you want to know?" (2003) (1)
The rhetoric of remembrance: Derrida on de Man (1987) (1)
Literature and theology (2001) (1)
DECONSTRUCTION, ONTOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE : DERRIDA ON ARISTOTLE (1998) (1)
Under Which King, Bezonian? Experimental Philosophy versus Thought Experiment (2013) (1)
Doubting Castle or the Slough of Despond: Davidson and Schiffer on the Limits of Analysis (1996) (1)
Hilary Putnam on Realism, Truth and Reason (2005) (1)
Great Philosophy: Discovery, Invention, and the Uses of Error (2014) (1)
'Courage Not Under Fire': Realism, Anti-realism, and the Epistemological Virtues (2001) (1)
Between Marx and Nietzsche: the prospect for critical theory (1981) (0)
Deconstruction, Logic and 'Ordinary Language': Derrida on the Limits of Thought (2010) (0)
7 Badiou on Inaesthetics and Transitory Ontology: The Case of Political Song (2014) (0)
Further thoughts: on the extended mind hypothesis (2012) (0)
Conflict, Compromise or Complementarity: ideas of science in modern literary theory (2020) (0)
Ideology: A Review (1991) (0)
Chthonic Restitutions: Madness and Oblivion (2020) (0)
Figural narrative and plot construction: Empson on pastoral (1993) (0)
Ethics, Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Science (1999) (0)
Sexed Equations and Vexed Physicists: the 'two cultures' revisited (2020) (0)
Life, love and theory: a verse-chronicle (2016) (0)
Of Supplementarity: Derrida on Truth, Language and Deviant Logic (2011) (0)
Enlightened Pursuits: Truth-Seeking Discourse and Postmodern Scepticism (2021) (0)
‘FOG OVER CHANNEL, CONTINENT ISOLATED’ THEORY, PHILOSOPHY AND THE GREAT DIVIDE (2004) (0)
Showings (Wittgenstein): A Double Sestina (2019) (0)
ROOTS: STRUCTURALISM AND NEW CRITICISM (2003) (0)
Deconstruction versus Postmodernism: epistemology, ethics, aesthetics (2020) (0)
The ‘German–French’ debate: critical theory, hermeneutics and deconstruction (2001) (0)
Robert C. Elliott and the Literary Persona@@@The Literary Persona (1984) (0)
What‘s Love Got to Do With It? (2014) (0)
Comments about the meaning of life. (1970) (0)
Progress in Philosophy and in the Physical Sciences: How Far Does The Analogy Hold? (2017) (0)
Putnam on realism, reference and truth: The problem with quantum mechanics (2001) (0)
The Serpent's Egg: on the ethics of political assassination (2008) (0)
Contest of Faculties (Routledge Revivals): Philosophy and Theory After Deconstruction (1986) (0)
American neopragmatism and its background (2001) (0)
Change, Conservation, and Crisis-Management in the Discourse of Analytic Philosophy (2004) (0)
Truth, criticism and the politics of theory: An interview by Anthony Arnove (1995) (0)
Minimalist Semantics and the Hermeneutic Turn: On ‘Post-Analytical’ Philosophy (1997) (0)
Re-Reading English@@@Deconstruction: Theory and Practice (1983) (0)
Best-kept secrets: literary lessons (2009) (0)
Summa pro mathematica: on Alain Badiou's Being and Event (2010) (0)
How Not to Defeat Scepticism (2013) (0)
Hawking contra Philosophy: A Case for the Defence (2011) (0)
SENSE AND STRUCTURALISM (1976) (0)
Can realism be naturalised? Putnam on sense, Commonsense, and the senses (2000) (0)
The Perceiver’s Share (2): Deconstructive Musicology and Cognitive Science (2004) (0)
FROM VOICE TO TEXT: DERRIDA’S CRITIQUE OF PHILOSOPHY (2003) (0)
Ethics, Autonomy, and the Grounds of Belief (2005) (0)
William Empson: Essays on Renaissance Literature. Vol. I: Donne and the New Philosophy@@@William Empson: The Critical Achievement (1995) (0)
Semiotics and Interpretation (review) (2011) (0)
Ideas of the Decade: Naturalistic Rationalism (2010) (0)
Dictatorship of the Professoriat? Antiobjectivism in Anglo-American Philosophy (2007) (0)
Remembering de man: A review article (1988) (0)
Comparative Criticism: A Yearbook. Volumes II and III (1983) (0)
On Deconstruction@@@Deconstruction: Theory and Practice (1985) (0)
On Knowing What We Like: Music, 'Best Opinion' and Evaluative Warrant (2005) (0)
HAROLD BLOOM: A POETICS OF RECONSTRUCTION (1980) (0)
The Skeptic Disposition in Contemporary Criticism@@@Literary Meaning: From Phenomenology to Deconstruction@@@The Deconstructive Turn: Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy (1986) (0)
Tractatus Mathematico-Politicus: on Alain Badiou’s Being and Event (2011) (0)
Terza Rima for Terry (Meaning by Hawkes) (2016) (0)
LES PLAISIRS DES CLERCS: BARTHES'S LATEST WRITING (1974) (0)
STRUCTURE AND GENESIS IN SCIENTIFIC THEORY: HUSSERL, BACHELARD, DERRIDA (2000) (0)
Deconstruction, Postmodernism and Philosophy of Science (2020) (0)
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (review) (2011) (0)
Pound. Only in a few rare moments does Carpenter seem to follow the crowd and praise Pound for making his poems almost totally in- comprehensible. In describing one of the "Pisan Cantos," Canto (2009) (0)
The Limits of Whose Language?: Wittgenstein on Logic, Mathematics, and Science (2004) (0)
Poetry and Poetics: some critical-creative reflections (2022) (0)
The Limits of Whose Language? Wittgenstein on Philosophy of Science, Mathematics, and Logic (2003) (0)
JACQUES DERRIDA: LANGUAGE AGAINST ITSELF (2003) (0)
Modularity, Nativism, and Reference-Fixing: On Chomsky’s Internalist Assumptions (2004) (0)
NIETZSCHE: PHILOSOPHY AND DECONSTRUCTION (2003) (0)
Alain Badiou: truth, mathematics and the claim of reason (2008) (0)
'The Night in which All Cows are Black': Paul de Man, 'mere reading' and indifference to philosophy (2020) (0)
William Empson: Contributors (1993) (0)
Living with Naturalism: Why Philosophy Finds it so Hard (2010) (0)
Continental Philosophy of Music (2020) (0)
Realism and Anti‐Realism in Contemporary Philosophy: “What's Truth Got to do with It?” (2008) (0)
Phenomenology, Structuralism, and Philosophy of Music: A Qualified Platonist Approach (2007) (0)
The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals) : Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy (2010) (0)
"The Night in which All Cows are Black": de Man, "mere reading," and indifference to philosophy (1998) (0)
'Second Nature', Knowledge and Normativity: revisiting McDowell’s Kant (2011) (0)
Postmodern Ethics and the Trouble with Relativism (2020) (0)
AFTERWORD (1991): FURTHER THOUGHTS ON DECONSTRUCTION, POSTMODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF THEORY (2002) (0)
Some versions of Platonism: mathematics and ontology according to Badiou (2008) (0)
How Many Positrons Make Five?—Science, Scepticism, and the 'Ready-made World' (2000) (0)
GETTING REAL WITH QUANTA (2003) (0)
Pots, Kettles and Shades of Black: Analytic Philosophy Versus Postmodernism (2010) (0)
3.1 'Deconstruction, post-modernism and the visual arts' (2001) (0)
Mimesis and politics: A review essay (1991) (0)
Treading Water in Neurth's Ship: Quine, Davidson, Rorty (1998) (0)
Post-Structuralist Readings of English Poetry@@@Post-Structuralism and the Question of History (1990) (0)
Provoking philosophy: Shakespeare, Johnson, Wittgenstein, Derrida (2008) (0)
African American literary history and criticism (2001) (0)
2. Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity’ (2019) (0)
Jacques Derrida, Volumes 1- 4 (2003) (0)
Deconstruction: Theory and PracticeDeconstructive Criticism: An Advanced Introduction (1984) (0)
Words and things in phenomenology and existentialism (2001) (0)
Poetry as (a Kind of) Philosophy (2020) (0)
Philosophy, Theory and the ‘Contest of Faculties’: Saving Deconstruction from the Pragmatists (1989) (0)
Realism, projectivism and response-dependence (2002) (0)
Putnam, Peano, and the Malin Génie: could we possibly bewrong about elementary number-theory? (2002) (0)
Marxism and literary criticism (2001) (0)
For the Tempus-Fugitives: Poems and Verse-Essays (2017) (0)
Holism, Realism and Truth: How to be an Anti-relativist and Not Give Up on Heidegger (or Davidson) – A Response to (2018) (0)
On the Occasion of Terry Eagleton's Honorary Doctorate, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2022) (0)
In Defence of 'Structural Listening': Some Problems With the New Musicology (2005) (0)
Homages to Michel Serres (1930 – 2019) (2019) (0)
Semiotics in Great Britain (1986) (0)
MUSIC AND PURE THOUGHT: OUTLINE OF A STUDY (1975) (0)
Stones and Pendulums: Joseph Margolis and the Truth about Relativism (1997) (0)
Saving the text (Kierkegaard): a double sestina (2019) (0)
Tolstoy's Major Fiction (review) (2011) (0)
'The Idea of the University': some interdisciplinary soundings (2020) (0)
Complex Words, Natural Kinds, and the Justification of Belief (1997) (0)
SENSE, REFERENCE AND LOGIC: A CRITIQUE OF POST-STRUCTURALIST REASON (1985) (0)
Complex Words versus Minimalist Semantics: Empson and Davidson (1997) (0)
Philosophy as Verse-Performance: five poems and a formalist prospectus (2017) (0)
The perceiver's share: Realism, scepticism, and response dependence (2003) (0)
Jurisprudence, deconstruction and literary theory: A brief survey and critical review (1995) (0)
Sophist or Antiphilosopher? (2012) (0)
FOR REALISM IN SEMANTICS: WILLIAM EMPSON AS CRITIC-PHILOSOPHER (1997) (0)
Ethics, Autonomy and Self-Invention: debating Foucault (2020) (0)
How not to defeat skepticism: why anti-realism won’t do the trick (2012) (0)
On the Philosophy of Music (1976) (0)
Quantum Mechanics and the Limits of Empiricism: Recent Challenges to the Orthodox Theory (2004) (0)
The Augumentative Muse: recent philosophical poems by Christopher Norris (2015) (0)
BETWEEN MARX AND NIETZSCHE: THE POLITICS OF DECONSTRUCTION (2003) (0)
Spinoza & the origins of modern critical theory (1991) (0)
Empson as teacher: the Sheffield years (1993) (0)
Wrestling with deconstructors (1980) (0)
Why Derrida Is Not a Postmodernist (2003) (0)
‘Post Analytical’ Philosophy: What’s in a Name? (1995) (0)
Sources of the Kuhnian ‘Revolution‘ (2001) (0)
Badiou on Set Theory, Ontology and Truth: mathematics as a guide to metaphysics (part one) (2009) (0)
Truth, Ethics and Criticism (1997) (0)
Realism, Truth and Counterfactual Possibility: Thought-experiments in Science and Philosophy (1997) (0)
Textually intertwining the idea of woman with deconstruction (2016) (0)

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