Of Grammatology
From the Mother Tongue Liberation & Defiance collection.
Nominated by Geophysical Artist & Geographer Wayne Chambliss |
"The whole book is a prolonged gesture of – and guide to – resistance of thought: against unexamined metaphysical "foundations"; against instrumental readings and untangled hierarchies; against meaning's closure." |
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.
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