The Privilege of Speech in History of Philosophy

David Frum: Derrida argues that speech is not privileged to writing. He says it's evidence of a general appreciation of what he calls the metaphysics of phonetic writing. In other words, because phonemes relate a sound to a specific letter in a kind of one-to-one relationship, they have therefore a closer attachment to the reality and God than written language has ever been said to be. The book seeks to develop or ask if there is such a thing as a grammatology of writing, which would demand an adoption of logocentric form associated with science," Frum writes.