Abstract

This article analyzes the theme of book in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, as well as the inevitability of transformation of its customary forms. The theme of book is central at least in the three texts by Jacques Derrida: “The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing”, “Outside the Book”, and “The Book to Come”. However, in the process of analysis, the author goes beyond the boundaries of these three works of the philosopher, placing the problem of the “book to come” in a broader context of discursive practices of Jacques Derrida. The book in its common form is on the cusp of dispersion, i.e. decay of its usual structure and integrity. The former totality of linear writing, which is organically interrelated with the book form, yields to the new forms of submission of information and its archiving. This article describes how Jacques Derrida explicitly builds the form of the “book to come” letting it to the horizon of his writing, and thereby changing its very structure and fabric. A number of philosopher’s texts are distinguished by their polyphony, structural complexity, excess of quotations, scatteredness of phrases, words, and even sounds, phonemes, and syllables. All this leads to the disruption of the customary rules of reading, and forces us to form completely new strategies of the perception of writing and books, as well as all other practices that are inextricably entwined.