Speech and Phenomena

Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs is a book by French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It was published in 1967 alongside Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference. In this, his best known work on the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, Derrida puts forward an argument concerning Husserl's phenomenological project as a whole in relation to a key distinction in Husserl's theory of language in the Logical Investigations and how this distinction relates to his description of internal time consciousness. Derrida commented that Speech and Phenomena is the "essay I value the most" and it is widely considered one of his most important philosophical works. In it, Derrida articulates his mature relationship to Husserl and develops key discussions of the terms deconstruction and différance.