"Of Grammatology" Quotes
An exploration of the relationship between writing and language, challenging traditional notions of communication and presence.
philosophy | 456 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
There is nothing outside the text.
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.
In language, there are only differences without positive terms.
Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself.
Meaning only arises within the play of differences.
There is no outside-text; there is nothing outside context.
Différance is the movement that produces differences.
Every reading is a misreading.
The concept of presence is in fact the concept of a concept.
To write is to go from one side to the other, through a dangerous supplement.
