Book Description

Front Cover -- Jacques derrida -- Copyright Page -- 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 -- 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.