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Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology . Sean Gaston, Ian MacLachlan
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ISBN: 144115275X,9781441152756 | 273 pages | 7 Mb
Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology Sean Gaston, Ian MacLachlan
Publisher: Continuum
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. 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. Then all the rage in France: Speech and Phenomena, another study of Husserl; Writing and Difference, a collection of essays originally published in journals like Tel Quel and Critique; and his masterwork,Of Grammatology. 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. Of Dating and Derrida: Jeffrey Eugenides's Marriage Plot. First Professor: I say, Rodney, have you read Derrida's treatise on grammatology? Posted on | November 3, 2011 | 4 Comments I'm taking this course because I read Of Grammatology last summer and it blew my mind. I don't believe we need to presuppose that everyone must read Derrida's Of Grammatology to appreciate the architecture. 'Anyone reading these notes without knowing me,' Jacques Derrida wrote in his diary in 1976, 'without having read and understood everything of what I've written elsewhere, would remain blind and deaf to them, while he would finally feel that . In any case, Derrida is not making a claim about language—he's making an ontological claim. Honestly, I only had to read a couple pages of Derrida for my literary theory grad course, but I loved him so much that I got my (librarian) man to check out Derrida's Of Grammatology for me to read just for fun. And Gayatri Spivak's 'Translator's Preface' to Of Grammatology is definitely worth a read, since she often puts things more clearly than Derrida himself, as well as being very interesting in her own right. Jacques Derrida was born in El Biar, . Begin with this notion: what if you read Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology as a book review? 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. I read this first, I think, after some of the short essays that first introduced me to Derrida. Today's reading: Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, pp. Why do people read bad books, particularly bad books that are extremely long, extremely incoherent (or just poorly written, or deliberately incomprehensible), and sometimes even full of stupid ideas? Moreover, why do so You've read all of Of Grammatology! But all this brings me back to Grammatology--my second point.