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

[3] That is my conclusion from "reading" Derrida's On Grammatology. Ulmer The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1985. Then all the rage in France: Speech and Phenomena, another study of Husserl; Writing and Difference, a collection of essays originally published in journals like Tel Quel and Critique; and his masterwork,Of Grammatology. 'Anyone reading these notes without knowing me,' Jacques Derrida wrote in his diary in 1976, 'without having read and understood everything of what I've written elsewhere, would remain blind and deaf to them, while he would finally feel that . 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? I read this first, I think, after some of the short essays that first introduced me to Derrida. Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jaques Derrida to Joseph Beuys By Gregory L. But all this brings me back to Grammatology--my second point. Moreover, why do so You've read all of Of Grammatology! By comparison, reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason was a pleasure. In Derrida's reading, Western philosophers' preoccupation with first principles, a determination to capture reality, truth, “presence,”—what he called in reference to the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl “the thing itself”—was doomed.