Jacques Derrida by Hobson, Marian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Histories and transcendentals

Writing and difference

Sketching out the foreground: ‘writing’, ‘difference’ and ‘deconstruction’ A detour round ‘writing’ ‘Deconstruction’ as an articulation of philosophy and history of philosophy Deconstruction and empiricism Empiricism and transcendentality Writing and universal conditions Universal conditions and historicism The ‘syntax’: transcendentals and historicity

The infinites

The two infinites Husserl’s Kantian Ideas and historicity Infinity of and in Idea The aporias of the infinite History and absolute infinity

2. Replications

Roots and the a priori Writing and the ‘fold’ Doubles Reflexivity as mise-en-abyme Reflexivity and subjectivity Quotation The doubling of irony Indirect speech Parody of/and philosophy The modality of quotation Reiterated modalities

3. Strange attractors: singularities

Circuits of argument

A detour about language Phantasms and fetishes Time constructs

Singularities

The negotiation of the singular reference Singulars and proper names The thing and the event Other Singularity and the Law

4. Negatives and steps: ‘pas sans pas’

Negation and the infinite: two forms of relation Différance and Hegelian negation The double bind and stricture Stricture: connecting and constituting The postal principle and the ‘pas sans pas’ Sending Tangled hierarchies Return calls and histories The unknown and the neuter

5. Contacts

The random and connection ‘Assembling’ in language or in a particular language Nominalization and metaphor ‘A non-classical dissociation of thought and language’ ‘A subjectless transcendental field’? Prelogic Writing and consistency Consistency and repetition Coda

Notes Bibliography Name index Subject index