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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1984. In Applied Grammatology, Gregory Ulmer provides an extraordinary introduction to the third, applied phase of grammatology, the science of writing, outlined by Jacques Derrida in Of Grammatology. Ulmer looks to the later experimental works of Derrida (beginning with Glas and continuing through Truth in Painting and The Post Card). In these, he discovers a critical methodology radically different from the deconstruction for which Derrida is known. At the same time, he finds the source of a new pedagogy for all the humanities, one based on grammatology and appropriate to the era of audiovisual communications in which we live. Detractors of Derrida often accuse him of superficial wordplay and of using images and puns as nonfunctional subversions of academic conventions. Ulmer argues that there is, in fact, a fully developed use of homonyms in Derrida's style, which produces its own distinctive knowledge and insight. Derrida's experiments with images, moreoverh
Trade ReviewGregory Ulmer has written a very important book, one that deserves to be widely read and discussed.
Applied Grammatology is a rich mine of observations and hypotheses.
—Clayton Koelb,
Comparitive Literature StudiesGregory Ulmer's
Applied Grammatology is an extremely well-written study of Derridean thought and is particularily informative in its discussion of those aspects of Derrida's rather large oevre that have for the most part been overlooked.
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SubstanceHe has taken matters boldly in hand and dared to raise the difficult question of 'Application' in a remarkably clear style.
—James Creech,
Degre SecondIt is an ambitious book, seeking nothing less than to take the first steps in a program of change so radical as to seem unreceivable as pedagogy. But Gregory Ulmer's knowledge of the field is unusually wide and convincing and his vision of this new science exceptionally exciting.
—Louis A. Cellucci,
American Society for AestheticsTable of ContentsPreface
Part I. Beyond Deconstruction: Derrida
Chapter 1. Grammatology
Chapter 2. Theoria
Chapter 3. Mnemonics
Chapter 4. Models
Chapter 5. Speculation
Part II. Post(e)-Pedagogy
Chapter 6. The Scene of Teaching
Chapter 7. Seminar: Jacques Lacan
Chapter 8. Performance: Joseph Beuys
Chapter 9. Film: Sergei Eisenstein
Notes
Index
