Deconstruction: the Book

The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland 21218 The Johns Hopkins Press Ltd., London Originally published, 1970, as The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man Johns Hopkins paperback edition, 1972 Second printing, 1975 Third printing, 1977 Fourth printing, 1979 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 78-95789 ISBN 0-8018-1047-7 (hardcover) ISBN 0-8018-1381 -6 (paperback)

From the preface:

The papers and discussions collected in this volume constitute the proceedings of the international symposium entitled "The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man," ["Les Langages Critiques et les Sciences de l'Homme"] enabled by a grant from the Ford Foundation. The sessions were convened under the auspices of the Johns Hopkins Humanities Center, during the week of October 18-21, 1966, when over one hundred humanists and social scientists from the United States and eight other countries gathered in Baltimore. The symposium inaugurated a two-year program of seminars and colloquia which sought to explore the impact of contemporary "structuralist" thought on critical methods in humanistic and social studies. The general title emphasized both the pluralism of the existing modes of discourse and the interaction of disciplines not entirely limited to the conventional rubric of the "humanities."