Conrad's review
Of Grammatology
by Jacques Derrida
Conrad's review
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
Conrad's review
rating:
bookshelves:
owned,
philosophy,
pomo
The best way to read this is by skipping Gayatri Spivak's useless and ponderous foreword. The rest is a pretty banal but I guess unique observation on the supplementarity of writing to the spoken word wrapped up in a ton of hackwork. Compared to Limited Inc, this, and Writing and Difference, Derrida's later works are generally more easily comprehended, like Work of Mourning, Acts of Religion, etc. Like Foucault, Derrida enjoyed a late but breathtaking conversion to something like liberalism, and ultimately found justice to be the great irreducible (and... indeconstructible?) human need...
