--- product_id: 42626783 title: "Of Grammatology" brand: "jacques derrida" price: "€ 74.68" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.it/products/42626783-of-grammatology store_origin: IT region: Italy --- # Of Grammatology **Brand:** jacques derrida **Price:** € 74.68 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Of Grammatology by jacques derrida - **How much does it cost?** € 74.68 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.it](https://www.desertcart.it/products/42626783-of-grammatology) ## Best For - jacques derrida enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted jacques derrida brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Of Grammatology ## Images ![Of Grammatology - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61GNRDRH2IL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ What did my mind just go through? *by P***4 on Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2019* Even after reading this, it is hard to know how to process what my mind has just gone through. My first exposure to Derrida was in thinking through architectural deconstruction, which is certainly not merely buildings that look torn apart. But that was the lens in which I took in concepts like differance as the presence/absence of a “thing”, or arche-writing as the “text” in which reality allows for communication with an “absolute other.” This becomes a powerful new way to reconceptualize physical/metaphysical space and our relationships to a writing as architecture.Deconstruction still is hard to define precisely, though I feel you come out of this book with a good intuition for it. In short, it’s something that recognizes that reality is, at least in part, provisional. What does that mean? We need not take reality for granted. What “is” reason, justice, faith, fact, etc? We often do not recognize that the truthful speech (the logos) of this reality came into being because there was the potential for it. In other words, its guarantee is suspect. Deconstruction does not destroy this logos, but realizes that it is built on a “system” that allowed for its existence in the first place (or is it that it recognizes that the logos is a system?) Where I pull away from Derrida is when the logos is relayed in an ethnocentric way. I believe that Truth (beneath and built upon the logos, as such) encompasses all people at all times, because, as Derrida highlights, all life is about relationships between “others”. This paradigm is absolute.I do not believe Derrida would say words are absolutely meaningless, but are rather useful in their ability to create images by and through memory and/or abstract provocation. Communication comes from being exposed to an other, by the desire/need to convey meaning (“groans beyond words” Romans 8:26). Of course there is the “play” of language where we can engage in text or speech in a new and unconventional way, but this is built upon our “metaphysical” comportment, which Derrida has made his project to expose it as a history. To know anything (epistemology) supposes a recognition of reality as being something that allows itself to be known. We are therefore not reality’s author, but it’s observer.One break or confusion I have with Derrida is the ambiguity of whether he believes truth is created through or discovered by men. This is perhaps the postmodern conundrum. But this is where the reality of Death becomes useful for Derrida, as it is discovered and experienced absolutely. It stands as an absolute litmus test in determining a productive interpretation. Therefore a “being toward death” stabilizes us in our humble relation to others and our own existence.The question of a speech/writing origin really doesn’t matter, so long as we realize that that paradigm of communication is provided for as it offers the images of human expression. Derrida sees that our ability to imagine is what makes us most human. Which is only allowed by our relationship to the world, the people around us, and even ourselves. Relationship confirms the otherness of the other. It needs differance: Being revealed in the action of one binary necessarily confirming the other (we would not know light without darkness). What is needed, then, to prevent the fracture of our minds (which are incredibly resilient) is to come back to the logos (John 1:1). That is why deconstruction can never be destruction, rather rendered simply as suspension and (hopefully) the appreciation/gratitude toward our Being as such. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good customer service *by C***E on Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2019* When I had a slight concern with my order, the seller was quick to propose solutions and offer help. Product arrived exactly as described and it’s a good book. Highly recommend bothnlp this translation of this book and the seller. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ great book *by P***P on Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2017* The book is of course great. 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