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Article: Crossings: an interview with Rodolphe Gasche.(Interview)
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
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- December 1, 2008
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DM Recently, I have been re-reading Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology. It is astonishing to think that Derrida published this in 1967, along with two other major books of that year, that, at so early a stage, he could anticipate what would prove to be his life-work, that he could analyze metaphysics in a way it had not been analyzed before. It is difficult to cut into the book and extract a statement from it, but I will try to do just that, citing from the section where Derrida reads texts on linguistics that were written by Ferdinand de Saussure. In these pages, Derrida attempts to detach his notion of the "trace" from the classical concept of the "sign" and from ...