Of Grammatology Av Jacques Derrida

<p><b>The deconstruction bombshell that rocked the Anglophone world.</b></p><p>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 <i>Of Grammatology</i> 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.<br/><br/>This fortieth anniversary edition, where a mature Spivak retranslates with greater awareness of Derrida¿s legacy, also includes a new afterword by her which supplements her influential original preface. Judith Butler has added an introduction. All references in the work have been updated. One of contemporary crit