Of Grammatology 50/e

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.

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 Levi-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