Episode 2 - Derrida's Of Grammatology and the Relationship of Speech to Writing

In this episode, I examine the excerpt from Derrida's Of Grammatology that appears in the Rivkin and Ryan reader (pages 300-331 in the second edition), paying special attention to Derrida's critique of the pattern in the Western philosophical tradition of viewing writing as secondary to speech, and, for writers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, speech itself as seemingly secondary to "pure articulation"...