Writing and Difference

Writing and Difference is a landmark collection of essays in which Jacques Derrida develops the foundations of deconstruction, challenging traditional assumptions about language, philosophy, and meaning. Originally published in French in 1967, the work examines thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, Sigmund Freud, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and G. W. F. Hegel.

Through close readings of philosophy, literature, and the human sciences, Derrida argues that Western metaphysics relies on unstable conceptual oppositions and that writing plays a far more fundamental role in the production of meaning than classical philosophy had acknowledged.