Of Grammatology is a 1967 book by French
philosopher Jacques Derrida that has been called a foundational text for
deconstructive criticism. It is one of three books, the others being
Speech and Phenomena and
Writing and Difference , that Derrida published in 1967 and which established his reputation. It discusses writers such as
Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Ferdinand de Saussure,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Étienne Condillac,
Louis Hjelmslev,
Martin Heidegger,
Edmund Husserl,
Roman Jakobson,
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,
André Leroi-Gourhan, and
William Warburton. The English translation by
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was first published in 1976. A revised edition of the translation was published in 1997.