Reading Derrida

Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology by Sean Gaston, Ian MacLachlan

Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology Sean Gaston, Ian MacLachlan ebook
Publisher: Continuum
Page: 273
ISBN: 144115275X, 9781441152756
Format: pdf

Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology It is probably easier to understand deconstruction while reading Derrida's essays, because he uses the method differently in each case; he does not spell it out explicitly like a formula. My friend, J., who was in graduate school, and called himself a marxist-feminist (he's now a libertarian), told me all about Derrida. It was my first introduction to Derrida, and that introduction was Of Grammatology. 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. The preface outlines the structure of the text: Part I offers “a theoretical matrix,” which is then tested in part II by a reading of the “age of Rousseau”. I don't believe we need to presuppose that everyone must read Derrida's Of Grammatology to appreciate the architecture. Of Grammatology opens with a preface and an exergue. Each book offers: a summary of the text; an overview of its key ideas; historical context; and a guide to further reading and study.Everything you need to know about “Derrida's Of Grammatology” is in one volume. The first time I didn't read of Grammatology, I had just finished my undergraduate study. We read a number of theorists, including Lacan, Wittgenstein, Saussure, and finally Derrida. Begin with this notion: what if you read Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology as a book review?