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Works that find the undecidable at the heart of the text
Derrida shows that the supplement Rousseau tries to exclude (writing, culture, the dangerous) is the condition of possibility of the original (speech, nature, the proper). These works share that same deconstructive move: the margin is not marginal, the supplement is not supplementary.
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Buy on AmazonL'Écriture et la différence
by Jacques Derrida
The companion volume of 1967 — essays on Freud, Foucault, Levinas, and Bataille; more accessible than De la grammatologie; the best entry into Derrida's range
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Buy on AmazonMarges de la philosophie
by Jacques Derrida
Margins of Philosophy — includes 'Différance,' the central Derrida essay; the most systematic statement of the deconstructive program; read after De la grammatologie
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Buy on AmazonLa Voix et le phénomène
by Jacques Derrida
Speech and Phenomena — the 1967 reading of Husserl; shorter and more technically rigorous; the third of the founding deconstructive texts alongside De la grammatologie
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Buy on AmazonSurveiller et punir
by Michel Foucault
The genealogical counterpart — Foucault analyzing institutional power/knowledge while Derrida analyzes the structures of Western philosophy; the two central post-structuralist projects in dialogue
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Buy on AmazonOf Grammatology
by Jacques Derrida
The Gayatri Spivak English translation — Spivak's preface is one of the best introductions to Derrida available; essential for reading De la grammatologie in English
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La Carte postale
by Jacques Derrida
The Post Card — the late playful Derrida; love letters, Freud, and Socrates; the most accessible and most personal Derrida; read after the founding texts
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Buy on AmazonTristes Tropiques
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
Lévi-Strauss's anthropological memoir — Derrida's critique of Lévi-Strauss's 'Writing Lesson' chapter is one of the central arguments in De la grammatologie; reading both together is essential
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Buy on AmazonMémoires d'aveugle
by Jacques Derrida
Memoirs of the Blind — Derrida's meditation on drawing and blindness; the most visually beautiful Derrida text; the late deconstructive engagement with art
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