Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Derrida, Jacques

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty

Description

xc, 360 p.; 23 cm.

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.

Uniform Title

De la grammatologie. English

Alternative Title

De la grammatologie.

Subjects

• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
• Writing
• Language and languages > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN

• 0801858305 (corrected edition)
• 9780801858307 (corrected edition)
• 0801818419
• 9780801818417
• 0801818796 (pbk.)
• 9780801818790 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^76017226^

OCLC

• 58410068
• SCSB-11046002

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library