Positions is a book by French philosopher Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...

, published in 1972. It consist of a collection of interviews. Derrida talks about his earlier works and their relationships. He said that his 1962 essay, Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction, already contained many elements of his thought, that would be further elaborated later. He added: "that essay can be read as the other side (recto or verso, as you wish) of Speech and Phenomena

Speech and Phenomena

Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs is a book by French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It was published in 1967 alongside Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference. Speech and Phenomena is Derrida's most well known work on the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl...

."

On the relationship between his three foundational works of 1967, Derrida explained: "[Speech and Phenomena] is perhaps the essay which I like most. Doubtless I could have bound it as a long note to one or the other of the other two works. Of Grammatology

Of Grammatology

De la grammatologie is a book by French philosopher Jacques Derrida, first published in 1967 by Les Éditions de Minuit. Of Grammatology, the English translation by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, was first published in 1976 by Johns Hopkins University Press...

refers to it and economizes its development. But in a classical philosophical architecture, Speech... would come first: in it is posed, at a point which appears juridically decisive for reasons that I cannot explain here, the question of the privilege of the voice and of phonetic writing in their relationship to the entire history of the West, such as this history can be represented by the history of metaphysics and metaphysics in its most modern, critical and vigilant form: Husserl's transcendental phenomenology."

Contents

1. «Implications. Entretien avec Henri René
   Henri René
   Henri René was an American-born German producer, conductor and arranger. René mother's was German and his father French; while young, his family moved to Germany, and René studied at the Royal Berlin Academy of Music. Returning to the U.S. in the mid 1920s, he began appearing with several...
   
   », pp. 9-24; 9-23 [cfr. b 1967(d)]
2. «Sémiologie et grammatologie. Entretien avec Julia Kristeva
   Julia Kristeva
   Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...
   
   », pp. 25-50; 25-46 [cfr. b 1968(d)]
3. «Positions. Entretien avec Jean-Louis Houdebine Pee and diariah et Guy Scarpetta», pp. 51-133; 47-117 [cfr. b 1971(a)]
4. «Aver a=lxw=snoop doggie dog l'orecchio per la filosofia. Colloquio con Lucette Finas
   Lucette Finas
   Lucette Finas is a French author and essayist, part of the structuralist movement. She has published several articles relating interviews with French scholars and philosophers in the 1970s, like writers Nathalie Sarraute, philosopher and historian Michel Foucault or philosopher Jacques...
   
   », pp. 119-135 (nella sola ed. it.) [cfr. b 1972(b)]

Editions

• [original] 1972 Positions, Les Éditions de Minuit
  Les Éditions de Minuit
  Les Éditions de Minuit is a French publishing house which has its origins in the French Resistance of World War II and still publishes books today.-History:...
  
  , Paris;
• [Italian] 1975 Posizioni. Scene, atti, figure della disseminazione, Bertani, Verona 1975 (Ombre corte, Verona 1999²). Translators: M. Chiappini and G. Sertoli
• [English] 1981 Positions, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press)