Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His books include Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, Dissemination, and Specters of Marx.

• AcknowledgmentsTranslator's PrefaceForewordPart One: Writing Before the LetterExergue1. The End of the Book and the Beginning of WritingThe ProgramThe Signifier and TruthThe Written Being/The Being Written2. Linguistics and GrammatologyThe Outside and the InsideThe Outside Is the InsideThe Hinge [La Brisure]3. Of Grammatology as a Positive ScienceAlgebra: Arcanum and TransparenceScience and the Name of ManThe Rebus and the Complicity of OriginsPart Two: Nature, Culture, WritingIntroduction to the "Age of Rousseau"1. The Violence of the Letter: From Lévi-Strauss to RousseauThe Battle of Proper NamesWriting and Man's Exploitation by Man2. ". . . That Dangerous Supplement . . ."From/Of Blindness to the SupplementThe Chain of SupplementsThe Exorbitant. Question of Method3. Genesis and Structure of the Essay on the Origin of LanguagesI. The Place of the EssayWriting, Political Evil, and Linguistic EvilThe Present Debate: The Economy of PityThe Initial Debate and the Composition of the EssayII. ImitationThe Interval and the SupplementThe Engraving and the Ambiguities of FormalismThe Turn of WritingIII. Articulation"That Movement of the Wand . . ."The Inscription of the OriginThe NeumeThat "Simple Movement of the Finger.": Writing and the Prohibition of Incest4. From/Of the Supplement to the Source: The Theory of WritingThe Originary MetaphorThe History and System of ScriptsThe Alphabet and Absolute RepresentationThe Theorem and the TheaterThe Supplement of (at) the OriginAfterword, by Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakNotesIndex