Jacques Derrida
Of Grammatology.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. First US edition. Translation by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak of "De la grammatologie" (Les Editions de Minuit, 1967), with translator's preface (ix-lxxxvii). 0801818796 xc/354 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", shows light shelfwear, with foxing to top edge of text block. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Price of $5.95 appears at top of rear cover.
"Influential enough to have affected the entire French critical scene, Jacques Derrida has been hailed as the most important philosopher in France today. His ideas of reading and writing, his notion of de-construction, his reinterpretations of phenomenology, of psychoanalysis, and of structuralism have profoundly influenced the vanguard of European and American criticism and have occasioned lively controversy...Derrida's philosophical background baffles some literary critics. The translator's long critical preface places him within the lineage of Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Freud, and Heidegger and illuminates his relationship with illustrious contemporaries like Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault. It also explicates some terms that have passed into the common currency of Derridean criticism."