Ebook {Epub PDF} Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida

 · Overview. The deconstruction bombshell that rocked the Anglophone world. 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 Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press. Derrida, Jacques. Of grammatology. Translation of De la grammatologie. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Languages-Philosophy. I. Title P1OS·DS ISBN (hardcover) ISBN (paperback) ISBN SS (corrected edition) A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Jacques Derrida () Of Grammatology. Source: Of Grammatology, publ. John Hopkins University Press., Chapter Two, with one section deleted. 2 Linguistics and Grammatology. Writing is nothing but the representation of speech; it is bizarre that one gives more care to the determining of the image than to the object. - J.-J. Rousseau.

Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology is a fundamental work of what has come to be called deconstructionist criticism. "Grammatology" is a term borrowed from Ignace J. Gelb, a linguist and. Derrida's text, which also claims to found this discipline as a "positive science", is as much influenced by the Lacanian distinction between signifier and signified as by a long critical note devoted to Rousseau. with regard to the first point, it is obvious that writing is the locus of the signifier, and that in this sense all grammatology. Derrida is new; and therefore take it for granted that, for the moment, an introduction can be made. Jacques Derrida is maitre-assistant in philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. He was born forty-five years ago of Sephardic Jewish parents in Algiers.! At nineteen, he came to France as a student. He was at.

Derrida's "Of Grammatology" is perhaps his most famous, as well as his best, work. It is a masterpiece of postmodern philosophy and also, incidentally, Derrida's most readable writing. The book is also a kind of showpiece of the deconstructive method: in it, the reader witnesses Derrida's deconstructions of Saussure, Levi-Strauss and Rousseau, all of whom, according to Derrida, privilege speech over writing. Of grammatology. by. Derrida, Jacques. Publication date. Topics. Language and languages, Writing. Publisher. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Of grammatology: Author(s) Jacques Derrida: Year of publication: Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press: City of publication: Baltimore, MD: ISBN: