Writing and Difference

Download or read book Writing and Difference written by Jacques Derrida and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French thinker Jacques Derrida. He called the new process deconstruction. Rewriting the ways in which we use language and literature, deconstruction affected every form of intellectual thought, from literary criticism to popular culture. It also criticized the entire tradition of Western philosophy, from Plato to Bataille."