What If Derrida Was Wrong about Saussure?

Russell Daylight

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Paper, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4940-2
$35.00

March, 2011
Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4197-0
Edinburgh University Press
$100.00

Over the past 100 years there has been no more important reading of Saussurean linguistics than that of Jacques Derrida. This book is the first comprehensive analysis on the importance of that reading and what it means for cultural studies, philosophy, linguistics and literary theory today.

The main themes of the text include the originality of Saussure within the history of Western metaphysics, the relationship between speech and writing, and the intervention of time in structuralism.

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Language & Linguistics

About the Author

Russell Daylight has published several articles on Derrida and Saussure, as well as on democracy and postmodernity. He currently lectures in semiotics at Macquarie University, Charles Sturt University and the University of Western Sydney.

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