Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff, Wales, and has taught at many universities in India, Australia, Greece, Spain, Germany, Canada, China, the US, and elsewhere. He is the author of numerous books on aspects of philosophy, critical theory, and modern intellectual history.

• Deconstrcution "versus" postmodernism - epistemology, ethics, aesthetics; postmodern ethics and the trouble with relativism; deconstruction and the "unfinished project of modernity"; deconstruction, postmodernism and philosophy of science; "the idea of the university" - some interdisciplinary soundings; ethics, autonomy and self-invention - debating Foucault; "the night in which all cows are black" - Paul de Man, "mere reading" and indifference to philosophy; conflict, compromise or complementarity - ideas of science in modern literary theory; sexed equations and vexed physicists - the "two cultures" revisited.