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One of contemporary criticism’s most indispensable works, Of Grammatology is made even more accessible and usable by this new release.
We should be grateful to have this distinguished book in our hands. Very lucid and extremely useful.
There is cause for rejoicing in the translation of De la grammatologie.
Reading Derrida was the shock of a decentering, the critical shift into a world of the interminable movement of difference, the crisis of any closure. Of Grammatology was and remains the most tightly worked... and exemplary... demonstration of the science of this shift and crisis.
The tool-kit for anyone who wants to empty the 'presence' out of any text he has taken a dislike to. A handy arsenal of deconstructive tools are to be found in its pages, and the technique, once learnt, is as simple, and as destructive, as leaving a bomb in a brown paper bag outside (or inside) a pub.
One of the major works in the development of contemporary criticism and philosophy.
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Available
Trim Size
6
x 9
Pages
560
ISBN
9781421419954
Table of Contents
Introduction by Judith Butler
Acknowledgments
Translator's Preface
Foreword
Part One
Exergue
1. The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing
The Program
The Signifier and Truth
The Written Being / The
Introduction by Judith Butler
Acknowledgments
Translator's Preface
Foreword
Part One
Exergue
1. The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing
The Program
The Signifier and Truth
The Written Being / The Being Written
2. Linguistics and Grammatology
The Outside and the Inside
The Outside Is the Inside
The Hinge [La Brisure]
3. Of Grammatology as a Positive Science
Algebra
Science and the Name of Man
The Rebus and the Complicity of Origins
Part Two
Introduction to the "Epoch of Rousseau"
1. The Violence of the Letter
The Battle of Proper Names
Writing and Man's Exploitation by Man
2. "... That Dangerous Supplement..."
From/Of Blindness to the Supplement
The Chain of Supplements
The Exorbitant. Question of Method
3. Genesis and Structure of the Essay on the Origin of Languages
I. The Place of the Essay
Writing, Political Evil, and Linguistic Evil
The Present Debate
The Initial Debate and the Composition of the Essay
II. Imitation
The Interval and the Supplemen
The Engraving and the Ambiguities of Formalism
The Turn of Writing
III. Articulation
"That Movement of the Wand..."
The Inscription of the Origin
The Neume
That "Simple Movement of the Finger." Writing and the Prohibition of Incest
4. From/Of the Supplement to the Source
The Originary Metaphor
The History and System of Scripts
The Alphabet and Absolute Representation
The Theorem and the Theater
The Supplement of (at) the Origin
Afterword, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Notes
Index
