From "Image" to Simulacrum: Derrida's Discussion on Writing

Dong Shubao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2019, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (4) : 168-176.

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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2019, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (4) : 168-176.
Western Literary Theory and Studies in Aesthetics

From "Image" to Simulacrum: Derrida's Discussion on Writing

  • Dong Shubao
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Writing is one of the key words in Derrida's deconstructive philosophy. In his Of Grammatology, Derrida refers to the claims of writing from Plato to Rousseau and down to Saussure,  confuting their idea that "writing is the image of speech". However, Derrida, inspired by Saussure's principle of difference that "in language there are only differences," and expounds the relationship between writing and difference, by which he transforms Saussure's static difference into the dynamic difference. Writing plays the game of difference in simulacra, and fills up the simulacrum in the supplemental movement of "image", Writing finally becomes a roaming orphan, which is nothing but the simulacrum.

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writing / simulacrum / difference; differance / supplement

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Dong Shubao. From "Image" to Simulacrum: Derrida's Discussion on Writing[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2019, 39(4): 168-176

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the Major Project of National Social Sciences Fund "The Development Path and New Development of Post-modernism Philosophy." (18ZDA017)

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