Table of Contents
Introduction Judith Butler vii
Acknowledgments xxv
Translator's Preface xxvii
Foreword cxiii
Part 1 Writing Before the Letter Exergue 3
1 The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing 6
The Program 7
The Signifier and Truth 11
The Written Being/The Being Written 19
2 Linguistics and Grammatology 29
The Outside and the Inside 32
The Outside Is the Inside 47
The Hinge [La Brisure] 71
3 Of Grammatology as a Positive Science 80
Algebra: Arcanum and Transparence 81
Science and the Name of Man 88
The Rebus and the Complicity of Origins 94
Part 2 Nature, Culture, Writing
Introduction to the "Epoch of Rousseau" 105
1 The Violence of the Letter: From Levi-Strauss to Rousseau 109
The Battle of Proper Names 115
Writing and Man's Exploitation by Man 128
2 "…That Dangerous Supplement…" 153
From/Of Blindness to the Supplement 156
The Chain or Supplements 166
The Exorbitant. Question of Method 171
3 Genesis and Structure of the Essay on the Origin of Languages 179
I The Place of the Essay 179
Writing, Political Evil, and Linguistic Evil 182
The Present Debate: The Economy of Pity 186
The Initial Debate and the Composition of the Essay 208
II Imitation 212
The Interval and the Supplement 212
The Engraving and the Ambiguities of Formalism 217
The Turn of Writing 235
III Articulation 250
"That Movement of the Wand…" 250
The Inscription of the Origin 264
The Neume 269
That "Simple Movement of the Finger." Writing and the Prohibition of Incest 278
4 From/Of the Supplement to the Source: The Theory of Writing 293
The Originary Metaphor 294
The History and System of Scripts 305
The Alphabet and Absolute Representation 321
The Theorem and the Theater 329
The Supplement of (at) the Origin 341
Afterword Gayatri Chakravorry Spivak 345
Notes 369
Index 429