Speculative Grammatology: Deconstruction and the New Materialism

Looking mainly at Derrida's early work — the three texts published in 1967: Of Grammatology, Speech and Phenomenon and Writing and Difference — Deborah Goldgaber opens the conversation between deconstruction and speculative realism. She shows that grammatology implies an original form of philosophical materialism and identifies the salience of deconstructive materialism to contemporary philosophical debates. She demonstrates that Derrida’s claims about writing's absolute generality — that w...