ABSTRACT
Author’s Aims Jacques Derrida wrote “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” in 1966. Its writing came in the middle of a period that saw him complete several works that aimed to critique structuralist thought from within. And it is in the context of Derrida’s general aims in this fertile period-culminating in the publication of Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, and “Speech and Phenomena” and Other Essays on Husserl’s Theory of Sign in 1967-that the aims of “Structure, Sign and Play” should be understood. The paper is both just one small part of this project and its clearest, most concise expression.
