Of Grammatology
By: Jacques Derrida ; translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ; introduction by Judith Butler
Contributors: Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, translator
Edition: Fortieth-Anniversary Edition.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9781421419954
Subjects: Philosophy; Language and languages; Writing
Work titles: De la grammatologie
Description: Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy-called deconstruction-changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy, literature, and the human sciences that these disciplines would have previously considered improper. Forty years after Of Grammatology first appeared in English, Derrida still ignites controversy, thanks in part to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's careful translation, which attempted to capture the richness and complexity of the original. This fortieth anniversary edition, where a mature Spivak retranslates with greater awareness of Derrida's legacy, also includes a new afterword by her which supplements her influential original preface. Judith Butler has added an introduction. All references in the work have been updated. One of contemporary criticism's most indispensable works, Of Grammatology is made even more accessible and usable by this new release.--
Notes: Translation from the French of: De la grammatologie.

Originally published in France under the title De la Grammatologie Copyright (c) 1967 by Les Editions de Minuit.

"Newly revised translation"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-427) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE WRITING BEFORE THE LETTER; title: Exergue; title: 1.The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing; title: The Program; title: The Signifier and Truth; title: The Written Being/The Being Written; title: 2.Linguistics and Grammatology; title: The Outside and the Inside; title: The Outside the Inside; title: The Hinge [La Brisure]; title: 3.Of Grammatology as a Positive Science; title: Algebra: Arcanum and Transparence; title: Science and the Name of Man; title: The Rebus and the Complicity of Origins; title: pt. TWO NATURE, CULTURE, WRITING; title: Introduction to the "Epoch of Rousseau"; title: 1.The Violence of the Letter: From Levi-Strauss to Rousseau; title: The Battle of Proper Names; title: Writing and Man's Exploitation by Man; title: 2."... That Dangerous Supplement ..."; title: From/Of Blindness to the Supplement; title: The Chain of Supplements; title: The Exorbitant. Question of Method; title: 3.Genesis and Structure of the Essay on the Origin of Languages; title: I.The Place of the Essay; title: Writing, Political Evil, and Linguistic Evil; title: The Present Debate: The Economy of Pity; title: The Initial Debate and the Composition of the Essay; title: II.Imitation; title: The Interval and the Supplement; title: The Engraving and the Ambiguities of Formalism; title: The Turn of Writing; title: III.Articulation; title: "That Movement of the Wand ..."; title: The Inscription of the Origin; title: The Neume; title: That "Simple Movement of the Finger." Writing and the Prohibition of Incest; title: 4.From/Of the Supplement to the Source: The Theory of Writing; title: The Originary Metaphor; title: The History and System of Scripts; title: The Alphabet and Absolute Representation; title: The Theorem and the Theater; title: The Supplement of (at) the Origin.