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In Of Grammatology, Derrida employs deconstruction to challenge the binary privileging of speech over writing, arguing that these binaries depend on each other and are fragile. He critiques the ethnocentric perspectives of philosophers like Rousseau and Lévi-Strauss, demonstrating that culture and nature, speech and writing, are interdependent rather than opposing. This work reveals the instability of meaning and the biases in traditional metaphysics.