Derrida Book

Preface and Acknowledgements     ix
Abbreviations     xii
Introduction: Jacques Derrida - 'un resau de traces'     1
Confessions     1
Autobiothanatography     4
This, therefore, will not have been 'Jacques Derrida'     9
Deconstruction     13
Remains: to be thought or, deconstruction (is not) what you think (it is)
Construing deconstruction: de construrer/de constructionem     13
Performativity     14
taking off from de-construction or, leaving home: de lobia     17
Beyond enclosure: de finire     19
Post cards, envois     28
Differance and Writing     44
A letter, literally a     44
Literal mnemonic     48
Derrida after Saussure     55
Spacing and temporality     58
Writing, supplement and 'la brisure'     63
Trace and arche-writing     68
Khora     71
Art     79
(Writing in [excess of]) Representation
Reflecting on a portrait or, drawing forth     79
Framing the subject     81
Subjectile     83
Trait     87
Passe-partout     95
Mimesis     98
Loose threads     106
Representation     108
Literature and Being     115
To literatize or, the equivocal seventh     115
Invention, singularity, historicity     119
Being-circular or, where one is, in literature     133
Being in literature     139
Literature is citation     142
As if     144
The barn and the bonfire: the example of Hardy     147
Spectrality     153
Being-haunted, in other words     163
Works Cited     166
Index     169