By reading Husserl, Derrida fundamentally rethought what it means to "read" and what it means to "write." This book, through an astonishingly meticulous reading of Husserl's *Logical Investigations* (specifically, the first part, "Expression and Meaning"), reveals that the phenomenological critique is a "metaphysical undertaking itself." From this difficult task, fascinating "operators" (tools of deconstruction that are neither words nor concepts) such as "deconstruction," "trace," "différance," "supplement," and "écriture" were born. This is a representative work that Derrida himself later called "perhaps the essay I am most attached to." Chapter 1: The Thing Called a Sign and Signs Chapter 2: The Reduction of the Index Chapter 3: Signification as a Monologue Chapter 4: Signification and Representation Chapter 5: Signs and Blinking Chapter 6: The Voice That Keeps Silent Chapter 7: The Supplement of Origin Risosha, 234 pages, 19cm, B6 size. No writing or markings.