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Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech acts, or the "performative," that Jacques Derrida and John R. Searle interpreted in fundamentally different ways. Their disagreement centered on the issue of intentionality, which Derrida understood phenomenologically and Searle read pragmatically. The controversy had profound implications for the development of contemporary philosophy, which, Moati argues, can profit greatly by returning to this classic debate.

Raoul Moati is a French philosopher and an assistant professor of continental philosophy at the University of Chicago. His books include Psychanalyse, marxisme, idéalisme allemand, autour de Slavoj Zizek and Evénements Nocturnes, Essai sur Totalité et Infini.

Timothy Attanucci is a lecturer in German at Princeton University.

Maureen Chun is a postdoctoral fellow and honorary assistant professor of English at the University of Hong Kong.

Jean-Michel Rabaté is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania.