Of Grammatology

Of Grammatology

Cover of the first edition
Author	Jacques Derrida
Original title	De la grammatologie
Translator	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Country	France
Language	French
Subject	Philosophy semiotics language
Publisher	Les Éditions de Minuit
Publication date	1967
Published in English	1976
Media type	Print
Pages	360 (revised English translation)
ISBN	0-8018-5830-5

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.