Volume 24, Number 3 · March 3, 1977
Deconstructing Derrida
By Michael Wood
Of Grammatology
by Jacques Derrida, translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Johns Hopkins, 354 pp., $5.95 (paper)
Glas
by Jacques Derrida
Editions Galilée, 291 pp., 62F
Structuralism, in various disguises, has been stalking literary studies in England and America for some time. But it usually stalks as a movement, and not in the name of any one of its practitioners. One of the interesting things about Jacques Derrida, who is generally regarded as a post-structuralist, is that he has found a following, at least in America, as an individual figure. It's not easy to measure the extent of his influence. Is it confined to a handful of English and French departments, or is it more widespread? It does seem fairly considerable in any case, and it raises interesting questions, not least because Derrida is not a literary critic but a philosopher. He teaches at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and also, for a brief spell each year, at Yale.
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