Research Catalog

Title

Of Grammatology / Jacques Derrida ; Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ; Introduction by Judith Butler.

Author

Derrida, Jacques

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty

Description

cxiv, 441 pages; 23 cm

Summary

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.--

Uniform Title

De la grammatologie. English

Alternative Title

De la grammatologie.

Subject

• Language and languages > Philosophy
• Writing

Note

• Originally published in France under the title De la Grammatologie, Copyright © 1967 by Les Editions de Minuit.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE WRITING BEFORE THE LETTER -- 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 the Inside -- The Hinge [La Brisure] -- 3.Of Grammatology as a Positive Science -- Algebra: Arcanum and Transparence -- Science and the Name of Man -- The Rebus and the Complicity of Origins -- pt. TWO NATURE, CULTURE, WRITING -- Introduction to the "Epoch of Rousseau" -- 1.The Violence of the Letter: From Levi-Strauss to Rousseau -- 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 Economy of Pity -- The Initial Debate and the Composition of the Essay -- II.Imitation -- The Interval and the Supplement -- 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 Theory of Writing -- 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.

ISBN

• 9781421419954 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1421419955 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781421419961 (electronic : alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)
• 1421419963 (electronic : alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015034844

OCLC

• 921240434
• SCSB-11117464

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library