Christopher Norris (critic)

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

Career

As of 2010 he is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at Cardiff University. He completed his PhD in English at University College London in 1975, while Sir Frank Kermode served as the Lord Northcliffe Professor of modern English literature there.

Since 1991 Norris taught in the Cardiff Philosophy Department where, in 1997, he was awarded the title of Distinguished Research Professor. 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 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 and philosophy of science. Norris is now considered a philosopher in his own right: 2003's Life After Theory reference required featured an interview with Norris, placing him alongside Derrida as a significant contemporary author.

Selected works

• Theory and Practice
• Against Relativism
• New Idols of the Cave
• Uncritical Theory
• Derrida (Fontana Modern Masters)
• What's Wrong with Postmodernism
• Deconstruction: Theory and Practice
• Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics
• Minding the Gap: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Two Traditions
• Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-realism and Response-dependence
• Resources of Realism: Truth, Meaning, and Interpretation
• Inside the Myth: Orwell, Views from the Left (Ed)
• Badiou's Being & Event

See also

• List of thinkers influenced by deconstruction