Writing and Difference

First published in 1967, "Writing and Difference, " a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derr...

First published in 1967, "Writing and Difference, " a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportely nontraditional currents of modern thought - one of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic modes.

雅克·德里达（Jacques Derrida, 1930-2004），是西方解构主义的代表人物，法国著名的哲学家。1983年起任巴黎高等社会科学研究院研究主任至今，还是国际哲学学院创始人和第一任院长，法兰西公学名誉教授。主要著作有：《胡塞尔现象学中的起源问题》（1990），《马克思的幽灵》（1993），《与勒维纳斯永别》（1997）等。