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For those interested in learning about the subject, here's a good place to start (in order): Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics http://books.

by fratis 14y ago

For those interested in learning about the subject, here's a good place to start (in order): Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics http://books.google.com/books?id=B0eB8mvov6wC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=B0eB8mvov6wC&printsec=f... Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology http://www.mohamedrabeea.com/books/book1_3997.pdf http://www.mohamedrabeea.com/books/book1_3997.pdf and, for fun... Jacques Derrida, Differànce http://hydra.humanities.uci.edu/derrida/diff.html http://hydra.humanities.uci.edu/derrida/diff.html

steveklabnik 14y ago
These are all great, but I'd be wrong to not point out that Deleuze is a bit different, in that he is a materialist. The rest of 'the continentals' went Idealist and turned to Saussre etc because they rejected essences. Deleuze's place is solving that issue, creating a neo-materialism. (At least, that is my current understanding of the history)
manys 14y ago
Of Grammatology is probably one of the most impenetrable books ever written. I'm not sure I'd recommend any of these as starting points.