Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. False Starts
6. Reflecting on the Occasions of Introduction: Justifying the Unjustifiable or, Beginning Again 15
7. Identities In Ruins
8. Uncanny Temporalities, Haunting Occasions: Sunset Boulevard 35
9. Biography’s Ruins: The Afterlife ofMary Shelley 61
10. Between: Speculations 87
11. Apparitioning
12. Eternity and A Day or, an “Endless Foreword”: Tout Dire 115
13. Citation’s Haunt: Spectres of Derrida 137
14. Occasions of Trauma and Testimony: Witnessing, Memory, and Responsibility 161
15. Affirmative Resistances
16. Origins of Deconstruction? Deconstruction, that Which Arrives (if it Arrives at all) 191
17. Hauntology or the Political? (or, no Politics, not now): Always Already Deceived 209
18. Letter to Martin Mcquillan, Concerning “The New International”: The Indelible Marx of Haunting 227
19. Reading To Come
20. Guilty Reading 251
21. Notes 303
22. Works Cited 355
23. Index of Proper Names 371