Of Grammatology Fortieth Anniversary Edition

A detailed discussion of the evolution of Derrida's ideas concerning language prefaces the complete text of his first major work which questions Saussurian structural linguistics and the metaphysics of presence
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 afterOf Grammatology 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. 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. This new release of Of Grammatology makes one of contemporary criticism’s most indispensable works even more accessible and usable.