The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought - one of his main targets being the way in which 'structuralism' unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 19, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought.
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