Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A map of this book xii
5. Introduction: five strategies or deconstruction 1
6. Pat I Avant la Lettre
7. 1.1 From capital 47
8. 1.2 'A note upon the "mystic writing pad"' 51
9. 1.3 'The meaning of general economy' 56
10. 1.4 'Critique violence' 62
11. 1.5 'The task of destroying the history of ontology' 71
12. 1.6 'The moment after' 80
13. 1.7 'In praise of water' 88
14. 1.8 'Friendship' 91
15. Part 2 Opening remarks
16. 2.1 'A number of yes (nombre de oui)' 97
17. Part 3 Philosophy
18. 3.1 'Deconstruction, post-modernism and the visual arts' 109
19. 3.2 'Philosophy as a kind of writing an essay on Derrida' 121
20. 3.3 'Deconstruction as criticism' 126
21. 3.4 'Genuine Gasché (Perhaps)' 134
22. 3.5 'Black Socrates? Questioning the philosophical tradition' 143
23. 3.6 'Discussions, or phrasing "after Auschwitz"' 154
24. Part 4 Literature
25. 4.1 'Derrida's topographies' 161
26. 4.2 'Autobiography as de-facement' 171
27. 4.3 'Ghost writing' 175
28. 4.4 'The phantom review' 178
29. 4.5 'Hamlet's dilemma' 190
30. 4.6 'The ghosts of critique and deconstruction 198
31. Part 5 Culture
32. 5.1 'Deconstruction is not what you think' 217
33. 5.2 'Derrida, architecture and philosophy' 220
34. 5.3 'Violence of Architecture' 229
35. 5.4 'Thinking technology' 235
36. 5.5 'Toward a Narcoanalysis' 244
37. 5.6 'Speech acts politically' 254
38. 5.7 'Homeconopoesis I' 263
39. Part 6 Sexual difference
40. 6.1 'Unnecessary introductions' 275
41. 6.2 'The same difference' 283
42. 6.3 'Gender theory and the yale school' 292
43. 6.4 'Domestication' 304
44. 6.5 'Recognising the virus' 311
45. 6.6 'What is it o'clock? or the door (we never enter)' 321
46. Part 7 Psychoanalysis
47. 7.1 'Psychoanalysis: the french connection' 331
48. 7.2 From the wolf man's magic word 340
49. 7.3 'The sideshow, or: remarks on a canny moment' 351
50. 7.4 'The remains of psychoanalysis (I): telepathy' 361
51. 7.5 From prosthesis 370
52. Part 8 Politics
53. 8.1 'Marx and Derrida 379
54. 8.2 'Spectres of engels' 383
55. 8.3 'The deconstruction of politics' 388
56. 8.4 'Practical politics of the open end' 397
57. 8.5 'Why do empty signifiers matter in politics?' 405
58. 8.6 'Of mimicry and man: the ambivalence of colonial discourse' 414
59. Part 9 Ethics
60. 9.1 'Jacques Derrida: wholly otherwise' 425
61. 9.2 'The trace of Levinas in Derrida' 431
62. 9.3 'Post-structuralism, the ethical relation and the law' 443
63. 9.4 'In the name of...' 450
64. 9.5 'What is to be done?' 456
65. 9.6 'God is not Différance' 458
66. Part 10 The work of mourning
67. 10.1 '(In memorium) Paul de Man' 467
68. 10.2 'Text read at Louis Althusser's funeral' 471
69. 10.3 'Adieu: Emmanuel Levinas' 476
70. 10.4 'I'm going to have to wander all alone: Gilles Deleuze' 485
71. 10.5 Friendship-above-all [Amitié-à-tout-rompre]: Jean-François Lyotard 489
72. Part II Closing statements
73. 11.1 'Open letter to Bill Clinton' Pierre 493
74. 11.2 'Telepathy' 496
75. 11.3 'The deconstruction of actuality: an interview with Jacques Derrida' 527
76. Bibliographies
77. Bibliography 1: Jaques Derrida 555
78. Bibliography 2: Key publications of contributing authors 562
79. Index 574