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Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology by Sean Gaston, Ian MacLachlan

Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology Sean Gaston, Ian MacLachlan ebook
Publisher: Continuum
Page: 273
Format: pdf
ISBN: 144115275X, 9781441152756

Each book offers: a summary of the text; an overview of its key ideas; historical context; and a guide to further reading and study.Everything you need to know about “Derrida's Of Grammatology” is in one volume. Of Grammatology, 1976), Derrida argued against the 'phonocentrism' that privileges speech above writing by imagining that the presence of the author affords a fixed point of meaning and intention. I read this first, I think, after some of the short essays that first introduced me to Derrida. Jacques Derrida was one of the most famous philosophers of the later twentieth century and Of Grammatology is his best known text. Tim Weakley said Many congratulations! But all this brings me back to Grammatology--my second point. I can still vaguely remember when you came into the library of the BSR, insisting that Derrida's book on Grammatology was a work without which no self-respecting academic library could do. *le pout*" "A manifesto of metaphysics within a history of the moral decline of Rome. In the opening chapter of Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida explores the peculiar relationship between concepts, spoken language, and the written word. [3] That is my conclusion from "reading" Derrida's On Grammatology. Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology With new readings from nineteen internationally renowned scholars, Reading Derrida 's Of Grammatology is a significant reassessment and informed discus. The French philosopher Jacques Derrida (born 1930), by developing a strategy of reading called "deconstruction," challenged assumptions about metaphysics and the character of language and written texts. Reply January 01, 2012 at 04:22 AM. In Derrida's reading, Western philosophers' preoccupation with first principles, a determination to capture reality, truth, “presence,”—what he called in reference to the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl “the thing itself”—was doomed. Derrida published three books in 1967-Speech and Phenomena; Of Grammatology; and Writing and Difference, which outline the deconstructive approach to reading texts. But I'm a bit puzzled: what exactly were the "outcomes" of which you had too few all that time ago? By comparison, reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason was a pleasure. Simple enough, but I wanted to expand the idea to prove that everything, then, can be read. In any case, Derrida is not making a claim about language—he's making an ontological claim. Jacques Derrida was born in El Biar, . Happy New Birthday Year to you. I recently re-read Of Grammatology--after giving up a third of the way through the first time around--and I was surprised by what I found.