De la gramatología

Jacques Derrida

Jan. 1978 · Siglo XXI

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El autor busca demostrar que la posibilidad general de la escritura fundamenta la posibilidad de la lengua misma. La gramatología implica una reforma del concepto de escritura, una archiescritura lógicamente anterior a todas las oposiciones, y está llamada a desconstruir óno aboliéndolos, sino remontándolos a su raízó todos los presupuestos de una ling ̧ística cuyos progresos, precisamente, permitieron abordarla.

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Jacques Derrida was born in Algeria in 1930. His works of philosophy and linguistics form the basis of the school of criticism known as deconstruction. This theory states that language is an inadequate method to give an unambiguous definition of a work, as the meaning of text can differ depending on reader, time, and context. His De la Grammatologie (1967, published as Of Grammatology in 1976), is the most formal known statement of his theory. He further demonstrates this theory in his book Glas (1974, translated to English in 1986). Jacques Derrida lives in Paris and teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure. His awards include honorary doctorates form Columbia (1980), the University of Louvain (1983), and the University of Essex (1987), and an honorary degree by Cambridge University (1992), which was publicly contested, adding to his already controversial reputation.