Of Grammatology

AvJacques Derrida

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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The book that transformed critical thought, revisited for a new generation.Since its publication in English, Of Grammatology has remained one of the most influential works of twentieth-century thought. Jacques Derrida's sustained critique of Western metaphysics reshaped debates across philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the human sciences, introducing deconstruction as both a method and a challenge to inherited assumptions about meaning, language, and presence.This fiftieth-anniversary edition revisits Derrida's landmark text with renewed attention to its intellectual afterlives. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's translation—long recognized for its precision and ambition—has been carefully revised to reflect decades of engagement with Derrida's work and its reception. Spivak's new preface to the introduction helps recontextualize this inventive work of scholarship and its ongoing relevance. Of Grammatology remains a demanding and generative work that invites readers to rethink foundational concepts of writing, structure, and difference. This anniversary edition makes one of modern criticism's indispensable texts newly accessible while preserving the rigor that has defined its legacy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 36 mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:560
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9781421455891
Översättare:Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His books include Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, Dissemination, and Specters of Marx.

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AcknowledgmentsTranslator's PrefaceForewordPart One: Writing Before the LetterExergue1. The End of the Book and the Beginning of WritingThe ProgramThe Signifier and TruthThe Written Being/The Being Written2. Linguistics and GrammatologyThe Outside and the InsideThe Outside Is the InsideThe Hinge [La Brisure]3. Of Grammatology as a Positive ScienceAlgebra: Arcanum and TransparenceScience and the Name of ManThe Rebus and the Complicity of OriginsPart Two: Nature, Culture, WritingIntroduction to the "Age of Rousseau"1. The Violence of the Letter: From Lévi-Strauss to RousseauThe Battle of Proper NamesWriting and Man's Exploitation by Man2. ". . . That Dangerous Supplement . . ."From/Of Blindness to the SupplementThe Chain of SupplementsThe Exorbitant. Question of Method3. Genesis and Structure of the Essay on the Origin of LanguagesI. The Place of the EssayWriting, Political Evil, and Linguistic EvilThe Present Debate: The Economy of PityThe Initial Debate and the Composition of the EssayII. ImitationThe Interval and the SupplementThe Engraving and the Ambiguities of FormalismThe Turn of WritingIII. Articulation"That Movement of the Wand . . ."The Inscription of the OriginThe NeumeThat "Simple Movement of the Finger.": Writing and the Prohibition of Incest4. From/Of the Supplement to the Source: The Theory of WritingThe Originary MetaphorThe History and System of ScriptsThe Alphabet and Absolute RepresentationThe Theorem and the TheaterThe Supplement of (at) the OriginAfterword, by Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakNotesIndex