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Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology Sean Gaston, Ian MacLachlan
Publisher: Continuum

For my close reading on Jacques Derrida's 'On Grammatology', I chose the last paragraph on page 1826. Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jaques Derrida to Joseph Beuys By Gregory L. Why do people read bad books, particularly bad books that are extremely long, extremely incoherent (or just poorly written, or deliberately incomprehensible), and sometimes even full of stupid ideas? Today's reading: Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, pp. Jacques Derrida was one of the most famous philosophers of the later twentieth century and Of Grammatology is his best known text. Today's Reading: Of Grammatology, pp. Arche-reading: a metaphysics of absence? In order to help me understand the theory, I read “Semiology and Grammatology” by Jacques Derrida. Moreover, why do so You've read all of Of Grammatology! 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. *le pout*" "A manifesto of metaphysics within a history of the moral decline of Rome. It is with De la grammatologie - which was published in English translation as Of Grammatology in 1976 - that most anglophone readers encounter Derrida for the first time. Begin with this notion: what if you read Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology as a book review? I attempt to (re)read Of Grammatology, and reread my own first reading along the way. Ulmer The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1985. And Gayatri Spivak's 'Translator's Preface' to Of Grammatology is definitely worth a read, since she often puts things more clearly than Derrida himself, as well as being very interesting in her own right. Simple enough, but I wanted to expand the idea to prove that everything, then, can be read. It's easy to see why: this stuff still strikes me as at once harder to grasp and less original than Derrida's more practical, technical moments (i.e., deconstructive reading as a kind of ideology critique, displacing the binaries, etc.). Reading Derrida was the shock of a decentering, the critical shift into a world of the interminable movement of difference, the crisis of any closure.