Of grammatology / by Jacques Derrida ; translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Derrida, Jacques.

Standardized Title:

De la grammatologie. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Writing.

Physical Description:

xc, 360 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Corrected edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Summary:

"One of the major works in the development of contemporary criticism and philosophy."--J. Hillis Miller, Yale University -- Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in "De la grammatologie" sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the humanities, inspiring these students to ask questions of their disciplines that had previously been considered improper. Thirty years later, the immense influence of Derrida's work is still igniting controversy, thanks in part to Gayatri Spivak's translation, which captures the richness and complexity of the original. This corrected edition adds a new index of the critics and philosophers cited in the text and makes one of contemporary criticism's most indispensable works even more accessible and usable.

Contents:

The end of the book and the beginning of writing

Linguistics and grammatology

Of grammatology as a positive science

The violence of the letter : from Lévi-Strauss to Rousseau

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That dangerous supplement

"

Genesis and the structure of the Essay on the origin of languages

From/of the supplement to the source : the theory of writing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0801858305

9780801858307

OCLC:

39348029

Publisher Number:

99944998516

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