Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Preface to Third Edition xi
5. Preface to Second Edition xvii
6. Prefatory Note and Acknowledgements xix
7. 1 The Ethics of Deconstruction: The Argument 1
8. 2 The Problem of Closure in Derrida 59
9. 3 Clôtural Readings I: ‘Bois’ – Derrida’s Final Word on Levinas 107
10. 4 Clôtural Readings II: Wholly Otherwise: Levinas’s Reading of Derrida 145
11. 5 A Question of Politics: The Future of Deconstruction 188
12. Appendix 1 The Ethics of Deconstruction: An Attempt at Self-Criticism 248
13. Appendix 2 Habermas and Derrida Get Married 267
14. Appendix 3 Emmanuel Levinas 281
15. Appendix 4 Derrida: The Reader 288
16. Appendix 5 Leaving the Climate of Heidegger’s Thinking 295
17. Appendix 6 Five Problems in Levinas’s View of Politics and the Sketch of a Solution to Them 303
18. Index 319