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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Derrida, Jacques.

Contributor:

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De la grammatologie. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Writing.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xc, 360 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Corrected edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Summary:

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:

Writing before the letter. Exergue ; The end of the book and the beginning of writing ; Linguistics and grammatology ; Of Grammatology as a positive science

Nature, culture, writing. Introduction to the "Age of Rousseau" ; The violence of the letter : from Levi-Strauss to Rousseau ; "... That dangerous supplement ..." ; Genesis and structure of the essay on the origin of languages ; Imitation ; Articulation

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

Notes:

"Originally published in France under the title De la grammatologie"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-354) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Derrida, Jacques. De la grammatologie. English. Of grammatology.

ISBN:

0801858305

9780801858307

0801818419

9780801818417

0801818796

9780801818790

OCLC:

58410068

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