Textual Philology -- A Series of Translations of Western Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

Author: Jacques Derrida; Wang Tangjia
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The Selected Works of Twentieth-Century Western Philosophy collects major influential works from various dominant schools in Western philosophy during the 20th century. Through selective translation, it aims to enrich cultural accumulation, broaden academic horizons, and expand research topics, providing systematic and comprehensive primary materials for understanding and studying modern Western philosophy. This facilitates the theoretical and academic communities in China to deepen their borrowing and critique of Western culture. The author, Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), was a renowned French philosopher and literary theorist of the 20th century. His book Of Grammatology, first published in 1967, is one of his seminal works. The book is divided into two parts. The first part, starting from the basic spirit of deconstruction, focuses on tracing the history of the concept of writing and deeply analyzes the Western metaphysical tradition characterized by logocentrism and speech centrism. The second part, through the interpretation of the works of Lévi-Strauss and Rousseau, demonstrates a new style and strategy of reading, revealing the supplementary nature of writing and its profound impact on human social organization, emotional worlds, cultural life, and even ways of life.