Round 12: Tossup 5

This thinker states “I have but one language – yet that language is not mine” and describes his schooling as an immigrant in Monolingualism of the Other. This thinker first coined a “neographism” analogized to an Egyptian pyramid in an essay about the “hyperbolic moment” of the Enlightenment. In the 1990s, this thinker used the similarity of his language’s word for “ontology” (-5[1])to his coined term “hauntology” in the book Spectres (-5[1])of (10[1])Marx. To describe paths left behind by iterable writing, (-5[1])this thinker used his native language’s word for “trace” to name a concept borrowed by Gayatri (10[1])Spivak. This thinker intentionally misspelled the French word for “difference” with the letter A to explain the meaning of signs. For 10 points, name this post-structuralist thinker (10[1])who wrote about deconstruction in Of Grammatology. (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

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