Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Who was Derrida?
What Is Deconstruction?
BORDER LINES
The Critique of Philosophy
“Jacques Derrida”
Reading Derrida’s writing
The Viral Matrix
UNDECIDABILITY
Between Life and Death
Oppositions
The Horror of Indeterminacy
Plato’s Inauguration of Philosophy
Plato’s Pharmacy
The Cure for Pharmaceuticals
The Supplement
The Joker
Magician and Scapegoat
SPEECH AND WRITING
Phonocentrism
Is Writing Both Useless and Dangerous?
Metaphysics and Logocentrism
How Are the Foundations Laid?
Derrida and Metaphysics
Overturning
Displacement
The Metaphysics of Presence
Presence and Speech
The Repression of Writing
The Agenda of the 1960s…
Saussure’s Linguistics
The Trace
Structuralism and Phenomenology: Derrida’s Operations
The Four Fields of Différance
DISORDER IN COMMUNICATION
The Assurance of Context
Events
The Etiolations of Language
The Writing Lesson: Iterability
Citations and Grafts
The Law of Possible Failure
Communication?
Signatures and Paraphs
It’s Not What You Think?
WRITING AND LITERATURE
Literary Texts, Philosophical Texts
Contamination
Writing at the Limits
Decomposing the Word
Reading Mallarmé
Ulysses Gramophone
Other Yeses
In the Name of Joyce
The Tasks of Criticism
Opening Up the Text
Glas
A title?
Philosophy, Literary Art
Deconstructive Architecture
Le Parc de la Villette
Deconstruction at the Park
Functional Folie
Collaborations: Philosophy and Architecture
Choral Work
Re-inscription
Postmodernism
THE VISUAL ARTS
Jasper Johns
The Truth in Painting
Kant’s Aesthetics
Inside/Outside
The Parergon
Mémoires d’Aveugles
Butades and the Début of Drawing
POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS
Writing Around Politics
Alignments and Allegiances
The Heidegger Disputes
The Paul de Man Controversy
Deconstruction and Feminism
Choreographies
Marx and Marxisms
Spectres of Marx
Deconstruction’s Last Word?
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Biographies
Index