This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bound together by friendship and a complex relation to their own pasts. More than a literary text with critical commentary, it constitutes an event of central significance for contemporary philosophical, literary, and political concerns.
The book consists of The Instant of My Death, a powerful short prose piece by Blanchot, and an extended essay by Derrida that reads it in the context of questions of literature and of bearing witness. Blanchot’s narrative concerns a moment when a young man is brought before a firing squad during World War II and then suddenly finds himself released from his near death. The incident, written in the third person, is suggestively autobiographical—from the title, several remarks in the text, and a letter Blanchot wrote about a similar incident in his own life—but only insofar as it raises questions for Blanchot about what such an experience might mean. The accident of near death becomes, in the instant the man is released, the accident of a life he no longer possesses. The text raises the question of what it means to write about a (non)experience one cannot claim as one’s own, and as such is a text of testimony or witness.
Derrida’s reading of Blanchot links the problem of testimony to the problem of the secret and to the notion of the instant. It thereby provides the elements of a more expansive reassessment of literature, testimony, and truth. In addressing the complex relation between writing and history, Derrida also implicitly reflects on questions concerning the relation between European intellectuals and World War II.

Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in De la grammatologie sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the humanities, inspiring these students to ask questions of their disciplines that had previously been considered improper. Thirty years later, the immense influence of Derrida's work is still igniting controversy, thanks in part to Gayatri Spivak's translation, which captures the richness and complexity of the original. This corrected edition adds a new index of the critics and philosophers cited in the text and makes one of contemporary criticism's most indispensable works even more accessible and usable.

First published in 1967, "Writing and Difference, " a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportely nontraditional currents of modern thought - one of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic modes.

《书写与差异》为作者十一篇论文的结集，德里达运用解构的思想分析集中阐明了分延这一他自造的概念的内涵，它标志着一种奇特的运动，一种各自差异的运动—迂回、间隔、代表、分裂、失衡、距离—的纯粹统一。这些运动表达了一种共同的希求。即对文学书写与结构动机进行探索，并坚持一个基本特点，书写与差异之间的连接点。

《论文字学(精)》作者雅克·德里达是二十世纪法国著名哲学家和文艺理论家。初版于1967年的本书是他的成名作之一。
本书从解构主义的基本精神出发追溯了文字概念的历史，深入剖析了以逻各斯中心主义和言语中心主义为特征的西方形而上学传统。并通过对莱维一斯特劳斯和卢梭的著作的解读，向我们展示了一种新的阅读风格和阅读策略。是了解和研讨现代西方哲学系统而完整的第一手资料，有利于我国理论界、学术界深化对西方文化的借鉴和批判。
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本书作者雅克·德里达（1930-2004）是二十世纪法国著名哲学家和文艺理论家初版于1967年的《论文字学》是他的成名作之一。全书分两大部分。第一部分从解构主义的基本精神出发着重追溯了文字概念的历史、深入剖析了以逻各斯中心主义和言语中心主义为特征的西方形而上学传统。第二部分通过对莱维-斯特劳斯和卢梭的著作的解读,展示了一种新的阅读风格和阅读策略,揭示了文字的替补特征以及它对人类社会组织、情感世界、文化生活乃至生存方式的深刻影响。

1981年4月，解释学和解构论两大思潮的代表人物伽达默尔与德里达进行了面对面的争论。这是二者的首次学术聚会和交锋，引起了普遍关注。
伽达默尔首先在会上作了一个题为“文本与阐释”的主题报告，差不多可被视为伽达默尔哲学解释学的一个总结性文本。在次日的圆桌讨论中， 德里达向伽达默尔提出了三个问题，作为他对伽氏报告的反应；而伽达默尔也作了答复。之后，德里达又在会上作了报告。以上文本为伽达默尔－德里达这次争论的 全部材料，构成本书第一部分“巴黎对话”。
事后几年里，伽达默尔对这次巴黎论战一直念念不已，又相继作了三篇文章，意在重梳他与德里达的异同，进一步回应来自德里达的对解释学哲 学的解构论挑战。关于巴黎论战，来自多国的各路哲学家进行了评论，本书选译了其中的两篇。它们与上述伽达默尔的三篇后续文章一起，构成本书第二部分，立题 为“不可能的对话？”。
两派都在学界具有极大的影响力，各自亦有着不同的立场，这场巴黎论战因而备受关注。读者阅读此书，除了有机会全面了解此一重大事件，还可以更深刻地理解解释学、解构论乃至海德格尔之后的西方哲学走向。

本书主要梳理了德里达“延异”概念出现的文本历史，并通过逐段分析《延异》文确定了“延异”一词的语法位置，由此我们便可清楚地看到德里达的思想工作在当代西方哲学版图中的地位。在此位置上，他与海德格尔、维特根斯坦等哲人发生了精彩的交锋。
德里达的运思方式使他成为海德格尔与维特根斯坦之间的中间者，同时也将哲学在自身限度内推向了极致。在此，我们可以获得一个契机来观审：作为西方文明基础的哲学，其未来的出路在哪儿？同时，德里达的哲学品质并非简单地源自于现代性哲学，其不断自我吞噬的视野，以及这种现代性品质作为哲学之哲学性终究来自于古希腊。对于正在寻找文明主体性的中国人来说，认识到现代哲人的复杂谱系、现代性的古希腊根源，以及在古典传统中的多重思想面相，这些仅仅是思考我们自身思想道路的基本准备，而在古今中西之变的焦虑中，我们除了进一步厘清西学源流与中华古学的古典传统之外，没有其他捷径可走。

本书是德里达在把胡塞尔的短文《几何学的起源》译成法文的同时为该文所配的长篇导言。德里达在导言中以胡塞尔的晚期作品为基础、以胡塞尔早期和中期著作为线索，详尽讨论了“对原初含义进行重新激活的可能性”、“历史还原的方式”、“客观性、历史性与意向性之间的关系”、“如何跨越先验之我与先验之‘我们’之间的鸿沟”、“语言、理念与视域之间的交叉关系”等等一系列重大的现象学问题并从辩证法的角度给出了自己独树一帜的回答。作为回答的结果，德里达不仅提出了“远程通信”、“书写的现象学”、“中间地带”、“地理学”、“亚结构”、“终极创建的无限推迟”、“‘听’(而不是‘看’)观念”等令人耳目一新的表述。更为重要的是，德里达从中发现并论证了解构学说最重要的理论支柱——“延迟”原理。