In "Speech and Phenomena, " Jacques Derrida situates the philosophy of language in relation to logic and rhetoric, which have often been seen as irreconcilable criteria for the use and interpretations of signs. His critique of Husserl attacks the position that language is founded on logic rather than on rhetoric; instead, he claims, meaningful language is limited to expression because expression alone conveys sense. Derrida's larger project is to confront phenomenology with the tradition it has so often renounced--the tradition of Western metaphysics.
- ISBN10 0810103974
- ISBN13 9780810103979
- Publish Date 1 January 1979
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 January 2004
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northwestern University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 166
- Language English