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Jacques Derrida

When did Jacques Derrida publish his three major early books?

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Jacques Derrida — Jacques Derrida French philosopher of deconstruction Jacques Derrida, 1994.

Jacques Derrida published his three major early books in 1967. These works are:1

L’Écriture et la différence (Writing and Difference)
De la grammatologie (Of Grammatology)
La Voix et le phénomène (Speech and Phenomena)

In these texts, Derrida explored the treatment of writing by seminal figures in the history of Western thought, including Edmund Husserl, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Sigmund Freud.1