Of Grammatology

Of Grammatology
Cover of the first edition
AuthorJacques Derrida
Original titleDe la grammatologie
TranslatorGayatri Chakravorty Spivak
LanguageFrench
Subject
PublisherLes Éditions de Minuit
Publication date
1967
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1976
Media typePrint
Pages360 (revised English translation)
ISBN0-8018-5830-5

Of Grammatology (French: De la grammatologie) is a 1967 book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. The book, originating the idea of deconstruction, proposes that throughout continental philosophy, especially as philosophers engaged with linguistic and semiotic ideas, writing has been erroneously considered as derivative from speech, making it a "fall" from the real "full presence" of speech and the independent act of writing.