Giovanna Borradori

Career

She has lived in the United States since 1989. To invigorate this exchange, she pioneered the scholarly interview as a new philosophical genre.

Achievements

• While Habermas’s allegiance to Enlightenment principles has been uncontroversial, Derrida’s explicit defense of them is an important achievement of this book

Politics

A crucial focus of her work is fostering new avenues of communication between rival philosophical lineages, including the analytical and Continental traditions, liberalism and communitarianism, as well as deconstruction and Critical Theory.

Views

Borradori is a specialist in Continental philosophy, Aesthetics, and the philosophy of terrorism. In The American Philosopher: Conversations with Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Nozick, Danto, Rorty, Cavell, MacIntyre, Kuhn, she pressed her interlocutors to reflect on their relation to history, the weight of tradition in philosophy, and their encounters with pragmatism and logical positivism.