Part two of this book, Nature, Culture and Writing, analyzes Rousseau's Essay on the Origin of Languages, a work that the author situates between Plato's Phaedrus, which discusses the invention of writing, and Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, where alphabetical writing is established as necessarily superior to hieroglyphic writing.
The title concept of this work was coined by Ignace Gelb and developed by thinkers such as Walter J. Ong. The author argues that the metaphysics of presence has dominated European philosophy from Plato to the present in its first section, Exurge. Part two of this book, Nature, Culture and Writing, analyzes Rousseau's Essay on the Origin of Languages, a work that the author situates between Plato's Phaedrus, which discusses the invention of writing, and Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, where alphabetical writing is established as necessarily superior to hieroglyphic writing. Introducing the concepts of ? logocentrism and differance to a wider audience, FTP, name this seminal work of deconstructionism by Jacques Derrida.
The title concept of this work was coined by Ignace Gelb and developed by thinkers such as Walter J. Ong.
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