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Derrida's Of Grammatology

1967 · Paris (Paris, France)

In 1967 Derrida publishes Of Grammatology, with Speech and Phenomena and Writing and Difference in the same year: the founding texts of deconstruction, arguing that Western thought's privilege of speech over writing conceals the play of difference that makes meaning possible. Three books in one year give the coming movement its method and its most contested name.

Tagged: Postmodernism

The Event

Date
1967 (exact)
Era
The Structuralist Break; Standard periodization of postmodern history
Location
Paris; today Paris, France
Traditions
Postmodernism
Streams
Postmodernism
Key figures
Jacques Derrida
Key texts
Of Grammatology

Connections

Illustration for Derrida's Structure, Sign and Play lecture History Event Derrida's Structure, Sign and Play lecture 1966 the lecture's announcement given its book

Primary Sources

  • Derrida, Jacques. De la grammatologie. Paris: Minuit, 1967.

Secondary Sources

  • Bertens, Hans. The Idea of the Postmodern: A History. London: Routledge, 1995.
  • Hassan, Ihab. The Postmodern Turn. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1987.
  • Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism. New York: Routledge, 1988.

Provenance: HIST-1437; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-30.

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