Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology

✍ Scribed by Sean Gaston, Ian MacLachlan (editors)

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With new readings from nineteen internationally renowned scholars, Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology is a significant reassessment and informed discussion of Jacques Derrida's landmark 1967 text. Since its original publication, Of Grammatology has had a profound impact on philosophy, literary theory and the Humanities in general. Through a series of close readings of selected passages by writers from a wide range of disciplines, this collection aims to discover anew this important work and its continuing influence. The book includes new readings by: - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - J. Hillis Miller - Jean-Luc Nancy - Derek Attridge - Geoffrey Bennington - Nicholas Royle Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology is an essential book for anyone interested in Derrida's work, from readers new to the book to experienced researchers in philosophy, literature and the many other disciplines that Of Grammatology has transformed over the last forty years.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
READING DERRIDA’S OF GRAMMATOLOGY......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFATORY NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 12
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
PREFACE......Page 30
PART 1 WRITING BEFORE THE LETTER......Page 42
CHAPTER 1 THE END OF THE BOOK AND THE BEGINNING OF WRITING......Page 44
CHAPTER 2 LINGUISTICS AND GRAMMATOLOGY......Page 79
CHAPTER 3 OF GRAMMATOLOGY AS A POSITIVE SCIENCE......Page 120
PART 2 NATURE, CULTURE, WRITING......Page 152
CHAPTER 1 THE VIOLENCE OF THE LETTER: FROM LÉVI-STRAUSS TO ROUSSEAU......Page 154
CHAPTER 2 ‘. . . THAT DANGEROUS SUPPLEMENT . . .’......Page 160
CHAPTER 3 GENESIS AND STRUCTURE OF THE ‘ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGES’......Page 170
CHAPTER 4 FROM/OF THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE SOURCE: THE THEORY OF WRITING......Page 214
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES – INTERVALS......Page 225
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 236
NOTES......Page 237
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 247
INDEX......Page 260