Jacques Derrida, De la grammatologie [Of Grammatology]

Sean Gaston (Brunel University London)

Ed. by Graham Allen, University College Cork
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Domains

Philosophy of Language

Dates

First circulation or publication 1967

Places

Algeria (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Commentary / Criticism (literary)

Resources

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Derrida’s

De la grammatologie

was published by Les Éditions de Minuit in 1967 as part of the collection “Critique”. The English translation by Gayatri Chaktravorty Spivak,

Of Grammatology

, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, appeared nine years later in 1976.

Of Grammatology

has become Derrida’s most well known work and has had a remarkable impact on the Humanities in the last forty years, particularly the fields of literary theory, French studies and contemporary philosophy.

In an interview in 1967 (“Implications”) Derrida suggested that he did not want De la grammatologie to be read as a philosophical treatise advocating a new system or as a unified, “completed” work (in the Hegelian sense of the work as part of a progressive history of spirit that culminates in

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Citation: Gaston, Sean. "De la grammatologie". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 August 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10524, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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