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READING DERRIDA’S OF GRAMMATOLOGY Also available from Continuum: Alienation After Derrida, Simon Skempton Badiou and Derrida, Antonio Calcagno Between Deleuze and Derrida, edited by Paul Patton and John Protevi Derrida: Writing Events, Simon Morgan Wortham Derrida and Disinterest, Sean Gaston Derrida and Theology, Steven Shakespeare The Derrida Dictionary, Simon Morgan Wortham Derrida’s Writing and Difference: A Reader’s Guide, Sarah Wood Derrida, Literature and War, Sean Gaston Derrida: A Guide for the Perplexed, Julian Wolfreys Derrida: Profanations, Patrick O’Connor The Domestication of Derrida, Lorenzo Fabbri Encountering Derrida, edited by Alison Weiner and Simon Morgan Wortham The Impossible Morning of Jacques Derrida, Sean Gaston Jacques Derrida: A Biography, Jason Powell Jacques Derrida: Live Theory, James K.A. Smith Starting with Derrida, Sean Gaston Understanding Derrida, edited by Jack Reynolds and Jonathan Roffe READING DERRIDA’S OF GRAMMATOLOGY EDITED BY SEAN GASTON AND IAN MACLACHLAN Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane 11 York Road Suite 704 London SE1 7NX New York NY 10038 © Sean Gaston, Ian Maclachlan and Contributors, 2011 Derrida, Jacques. Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Of Grammatology © 1998 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reprinted with permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. EISBN: 9781441179746 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reading Derrida’s Of grammatology / edited by Sean Gaston and Ian Maclachlan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-1-4411-4676-2 – ISBN 978-1-4411-5275-6 1. Derrida, Jacques. De la grammatologie. 2. Language and languages– Philosophy. I. Gaston, Sean. II. Maclachlan, Ian, 1960– P105.D533R43 2011 401–dc22 2010041951 Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound in Great Britain READING DERRIDA’S OF GRAMMATOLOGY Derek Attridge J. Hillis Miller Geoffrey Bennington Forbes Morlock Timothy Clark Michael Naas Clare Connors Jean-Luc Nancy Paul Davies Nicholas Royle Sean Gaston Ann Smock Christopher Johnson Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Peggy Kamuf Michael Syrotinski Ian Maclachlan Julian Wolfreys Sarah Wood CONTENTS Prefatory Note and Acknowledgements xi Introduction xiii Sean Gaston, Punctuations Preface xxix Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Reading De la grammatologie PART 1 WRITING BEFORE THE LETTER 1. The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing 3 Christopher Johnson, Epoch, Event, Context 3 Michael Syrotinski, Origins: ‘the most original and powerful ethnocentrism’ 5 Sean Gaston, Even Leibniz 10 Christopher Johnson, The Cybernetic Imaginary 11 Julian Wolfreys, Of Dark Sentences and Gnomes 14 Forbes Morlock, Deconstruction – A Little Note 22 Michael Syrotinski, From Etymology (etumos logos) to Translation, via Badiou and Paulhan 23 Michael Naas, Pneumatology, Pneuma, Souffle, Breath 28 Sarah Wood, Good Writing 31 Ian Maclachlan, The Idea of the Book 32 Peggy Kamuf, A Certain Way of Inhabiting 36 2. Linguistics and Grammatology 38 J. Hillis Miller, Exergue 38 J. Hillis Miller, Brisure 41 J. Hillis Miller, Jeu 43 vii CONTENTS J. Hillis Miller, Trace 47 Nicholas Royle, Bizarre 51 Derek Attridge, The Arbitrary 58 Sean Gaston, Writing and World 68 Ian Maclachlan, Embarrassing Experience 70 Ann Smock, This Concept Destroys its Name 72 Ian Maclachlan, A Hinge 74 Ian Maclachlan, Something Other Than Finitude 76 3. Of Grammatology as a Positive Science 79 Christopher Johnson, Grammatology as a ‘Positive’ Science 79 Paul Davies, Why Leibniz? 81 Christopher Johnson, Writing in Evolution, Evolution as ‘Writing’ 91 Peggy Kamuf, Grammatology as General Science 93 Forbes Morlock, Differance – A Little Note 95 Sarah Wood, The Constitution of Good and Bad Objects 96 Jean-Luc Nancy, L’ouverture blanche 98 Jean-Luc Nancy, Blank Opening 99 PART 2 NATURE, CULTURE, WRITING 1. The Violence of the Letter: From Lévi-Strauss to Rousseau 113 Michael Naas, Leurre, Lure, Delusion, Illusion 113 Forbes Morlock, The Subject of Reading-1 117 2. ‘. . . That Dangerous Supplement . . .’ 119 Michael Naas, Entamer, Entamé, To Initiate or Open Up, to Breach or Broach 119 Forbes Morlock, The Subject of Reading-2 123 Forbes Morlock, The Subject of Reading-3 124 Peggy Kamuf, L’habitation des femmes 126 3. Genesis and Structure of the ‘Essay on the Origin of Languages’ 129 3.1 The Place of the ‘Essay’ 129 Sean Gaston, Pity, Virtuality and Power 129 Clare Connors, Preference and Force 131 Peggy Kamuf, Being-in-Nature 133 Clare Connors, Dynamis and Energeia 134 viii CONTENTS 3.2 Imitation 136 Ann Smock, Estampe 136 Geoffrey Bennington, Fractal Geography 137 Ann Smock, Accents 145 Forbes Morlock, The Copyist 147 Clare Connors, Articulation, Accent and Rhyme 149 3.3 Articulation 151 Michael Naas, Butades, the Invention of Drawing and the ‘immediate sign’ 151 Peggy Kamuf, The Eye at the Centre of Language 154 Forbes Morlock, The Subject of Reading-4 158 Forbes Morlock, The Subject of Reading-5 159 Clare Connors, Presque 160 Timothy Clark, Climate and Catastrophe: A Lost Opening? 161 Sarah Wood, The Point d’Eau or the Water-Holes that are Imperceptibly Present in Writing 168 4. From/Of the Supplement to the Source: The Theory of Writing 173 Sean Gaston, Kafka, Literature and Metaphor 173 Forbes Morlock, The Subject of Reading-6 175 Forbes Morlock, The Subject of Reading-7 175 Peggy Kamuf, On Naïveté 176 Ann Smock, Theatre Without Theatre 177 Sean Gaston, Periodicity 179 Peggy Kamuf, Habitation in General 181 Peggy Kamuf, ‘From somewhere where we are’ 182 Biographical Notes – Intervals 184 Contributors 195 Notes 196 Bibliography 206 Index 219 ix
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