Writing and Difference

In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French thinker Jacques Derrida. Read the book that changed the way we think; read Writing and Difference, the classic introduction.

Translator's Introduction 1 Force and Signification 2 Cogito and the History of Madness 3 Edmond Jabès and the Question of the Book 4 Violence and Metaphysics: An Essay on the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas 5 'Genesis and Structure' and Phenomenology 6 La parole soufflée 7 Freud and the Scene of Writing 8 The Theater of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation 9 From Restricted to General Economy: A Hegelianism without Reserve 10 Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences 11 Ellipsis. Notes; Sources