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Of Grammatology

Jacques Derrida
translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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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...

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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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Acknowledgments
Translator's Preface
Foreword
Part One: Writing Before the Letter
Exergue
1. The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing
The Program
The Signifier and Truth
The Written Being/The Being

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Acknowledgments
Translator's Preface
Foreword
Part One: Writing Before the Letter
Exergue
1. The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing
The Program
The Signifier and Truth
The Written Being/The Being Written
2. Linguistics and Grammatology
The Outside and the Inside
The Outside Is the Inside
The Hinge [La Brisure]
3. Of Grammatology as a Positive Science
Algebra: Arcanum and Transparence
Science and the Name of Man
The Rebus and the Complicity of Origins
Part Two: Nature, Culture, Writing
Introduction to the "Age of Rousseau"
1. The Violence of the Letter: From Lévi-Strauss to Rousseau
The Battle of Proper Names
Writing and Man's Exploitation by Man
2. "... That Dangerous Supplement..."
From/Of Blindness to the Supplement
The Chain of Supplements
The Exorbitant. Question of Method
3. Genesis and Structure of the Essay on the Origin of Languages
I. The Place of the Essay
Writing, Political Evil, and Linguistic Evil
The Present Debate: The Economy of Pity
The Initial Debate and the Composition of the Essay
II. Imitation
The Interval and the Supplement
The Engraving and the Ambiguities of Formalism
The Turn of Writing
III. Articulation
"That Movement of the Wand..."
The Inscription of the Origin
The Neume
That "Simple Movement of the Finger.": Writing and the Prohibition of Incest
4. From/Of the Supplement to the Source: The Theory of Writing
The Originary Metaphor
The History and System of Scripts
The Alphabet and Absolute Representation
The Theorem and the Theater
The Supplement of (at) the Origin
Afterword, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Notes
Index

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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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