2. “...That Dangerous Supplement . . .”
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186
From/Of Blindness to the Supplement
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189
The Chain of Supplements
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196
The Exorbitant. Question of Method
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200
3. Genesis and Structure of the Essay on the Origin of Languages
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206
I. The Place of the “Essay”
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206
II. Imitation
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234
III. Articulation
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266
4. From/Of the Supplement to the Source: The Theory of Writing
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301
The Originary Metaphor
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302
The History and System of Scripts
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312
The Alphabet and Absolute Representation
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325
The Theorem and the Theater
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332
The Supplement of (at) the Origin
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342
Notes
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344
Translator’s Preface
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344
Preface
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353
Exergue
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353
Part I: Chapter 1
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354
Part I: Chapter 2
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356
Part I: Chapter 3
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363
Part II: Chapter 1
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371
Part II: Chapter 2
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375
Part II: Chapter 3
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378
Part II: Chapter 4
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390
Index
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396
Back-Cover
“The translation is a noble job, and we should be grateful to have this distinguished book in
our hands ... [Spivak’s] situating of Derrida among his precursors—Nietzsche, Freud,
Heidegger, Husserl—and contemporaries—Lacan, Foucault, and the elusive animal known as
structuralism—is very lucid and extremely useful.”—Michael Wood, New York Review of
Books
“One of the major works in the development of contemporary criticism and
philosophy.” J. Hillis Miller, Yale University
Jacques Derrida’s revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology,
psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of
European and American criticism. The ideas in De la grammatologie sparked lively debates in
intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the humanities,
inspiring these stu-dents to ask questions of their disciplines that had previously been consid-
ered improper. Thirty years later, the immense influence of Derrida’s work is still igniting
controversy, thanks in part to Gayatri Spivak’s translation, which captures the richness and
complexity of the original. This corrected edition adds a new index of the critics and