Derrida Book

Introduction

Philosophy/Literature

Derrida on Plato: Writing as Poison and Cure

Versions of mimesis: Plato and Mallarme

Speech, Presence, Origins: from Hegel to Saussure

Linguistics or grammatology?

Rousseau: Writing as Necessary Evil

Myths of origin: music and speech

Psychoanalysis and the 'logic of the supplement'

Nature, culture and the politics of writing

Dreams of origin: 'The Writing Lesson'

Derrida and Kant: the Enlightenment Tradition

Philosophical scepticism: claims and counter-claims

Against pragmatism: Derrida, Rorty, Lyotard

Politics and the principle of reason

Logic and rhetoric: 'nuclear criticism'

Letters Home: Derrida, Austin and the Oxford Connection

'A Socrates who writes...'

Nietzsche, Freud, Levinas: on the Ethics of Deconstruction

Foucault, Descartes and the 'crisis of reason'

Epistemology and ethics: Husserl, Levinas

Chronology

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Names and Topics