The Inaccessibility of the Origin as a Zero Point

The focus of this article is Rousseau, the author of Essay on Origin of Languages. Rousseau's ideas about the origin of languages, the distinction between the northern / southern languages, etc. are considered in parallel with the situations of savagery, barbarism and civilization that he describes as social situations. Derrida criticizes opposition between writing and voice, the privilege given to voice, and the search for the origin of languages which he considers as belonging to metaphysics of presence. In this article, first, Derrida's opinion about language, voice and writing with différance, trace, déconstruction, metaphysics of presence will be emphasized. Then, Rousseau's thoughts will be examined and Derrida's criticism of Rousseau will be explained. Within the context of Derrida's writings about Rousseau in Of Gramatology, it will be shown that Rousseau's texts have revealed much more different things than he has meant, and he himself has destroyed the metaphysics to which he wanted to connect. As a result, it can be thought that the origin of languages and the idea of a more general origin are false notions