Round 10: 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” (10[1])of the Enlightenment. In the 1990s, this thinker used the similarity of his language’s word for “ontology” to his coined (10[1])term “hauntology” in the book (10[1])Spectres of Marx. (10[2])To describe (10[1])paths left behind by iterable writing, this thinker used his native language’s word for “trace” to name a concept borrowed by Gayatri Spivak. This thinker intentionally misspelled the French word for (10[1])“difference” (10[1])with the letter A to explain (10[1])the meaning of signs. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this post-structuralist thinker who wrote about deconstruction (10[1])in Of Grammatology. (10[1])■END■ (0[2])

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