DERRIDA, JACQUES.

De la grammatologie.

(Paris), Les éditions de Minuit, (1967 - verso of t-p., recte 1970). 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Some underlinings in first part of the book, otherwise fine. 447 pp.

This copy is printed in 1970, but is an exact reprint of the first edition of 1967.
Among Jacques Derrida's (1930-2004) three break-though books, 'De la grammatologie', 'L'écriture et la différence' and 'La Voix et le phénomène', all published in 1967, it is primarily the first that has become associated with the famous concept of 'deconstruction', which can be seen as Derrida's attempt to translate and bring further the idea of the 'Destruktion der Geschichte der Ontologie' set forth by Martin Heidegger. This connection suggests that Derrida seeks to continue the major project of Heidegger, but in a certain and specific sense. For Derrida's strategy is much more concerned with bringing forth the hidden binary schema in all kinds of text and ideas of a culture and not only in the philosophical ones. Therefore, in the present text Derrida presents some of the principles of deconstruction, not through theoretical explication, but, rather, by demonstration, where Derrida shows that the arguments promulgated by their subject-matter exceed and contradict the oppositional parameters in which they are situated. Or put in other words, deconstruction seeks to expose, and then to subvert, the various binary oppositions that undergird our dominant ways of thinking.
The here presented ideas has had an enormous impact on a number of the human sciences, including psychology, literary theory, cultural studies, linguistics, feminism, sociology and anthropology, and due to the thinking of Derrida a whole new world of problematic suppression and marginalisation has become apparent. This makes 'De la grammatologie' one of the must important philosophical works of the later part of the 20th century.

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