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

Of Dating and Derrida: Jeffrey Eugenides's Marriage Plot. Title:Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology Author:Sean Gaston, Ian Maclachlan Publisher:Continuum ISBN:3663366969. Graham and Levi are up with posts on Derrida. I recently re-read Of Grammatology--after giving up a third of the way through the first time around--and I was surprised by what I found. Posted on | November 3, 2011 | 4 Comments I'm taking this course because I read Of Grammatology last summer and it blew my mind. *le pout*" "A manifesto of metaphysics within a history of the moral decline of Rome. Listened to Joy Division live at Paradiso, Amsterdam (11 January 1980) while reading select bits from Derrida's Of Grammatology. When I started reading On Grammatology, I took a copy of Spivak's translation out of the library with it in case Derrida really proved unreadable. Hey, does anyone have a full electronic copy of that book? In order to help me understand the theory, I read “Semiology and Grammatology” by Jacques Derrida. Since I'm spending part of the day reading Levi's recent paper on time and Derrida, let me make a couple of notes: 1. As is his general modus operandi, Adam reduces my position to a mere straw man (“Derrida is just trying to be clever” and this reading of Derrida is just “common sense”) and then proceeds to argue that something like Hägglund's reading of Derrida is “just plain obvious”. No, it is not at all obvious that Derrida directly says as such in Of Grammatology — maybe he doesn't adequately demonstrate it for your purposes, but that's one of his claims. About any of these concepts, particularly deconstruction, and assume Yale undergraduates were somehow brainwashed with Derrida. I don't believe we need to presuppose that everyone must read Derrida's Of Grammatology to appreciate the architecture. I never read Derrida–Of Grammatology–until my first year of graduate school at UCSB. Derrida is not an easy read by any means. 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.