Deconstruction
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- A map of this book -- Introduction: Five strategies for deconstruction -- Part 1: Avant la lettre -- 1.1 From Capital -- THE FETISHISM OF THE COMMODITY AND ITS SECRET -- NOTES -- 1.2 'A note upon the "Mystic Writing Pad"' -- NOTES -- 1.3 'The meaning of general economy' -- THE DEPENDENCE OF THE ECONOMY ON THE CIRCULATION OF ENERGY ON THE EARTH -- THE NECESSITY OF LOSING THE EXCESS ENERGY THAT CANNOT BE USED FOR A SYSTEM'S GROWTH -- THE POVERTY OF ORGANISMS OR LIMITED SYSTEMS AND THE EXCESS WEALTH OF LIVING NATURE -- WAR CONSIDERED AS A CATASTROPHIC EXPENDITURE OF EXCESS ENERGY -- NOTES -- 1.4 'Critique of violence' -- NOTES -- 1.5 'The task of destroying the history of ontology' -- NOTES -- 1.6 'The moment after' -- LETTER TO JACQUES DERRIDA ON THE QUESTION OF THE BOOK -- 1.7 'In praise of water' -- NOTE -- 1.8 'Friendship' -- Part 2: Opening Remarks -- 2.1 'A number of yes (Nombre de oui)' -- NOTES -- Part 3: Philosophy -- 3.1 'Deconstruction, post-modernism and the visual arts' -- THE METAPHYSICS OF PRESENCE: PLATO, ROUSSEAU, SAUSSURE -- FRAMING THE TEXT: KANT AND HEGEL -- 3.2 'Philosophy as a kind of writing' -- 3.3 'Deconstruction as criticism' -- NOTES -- 3.4 'Genuine Gasché (perhaps)' -- NOTES -- 3.5 'Black Socrates? Questioning the philosophical tradition' -- PHILOSOPHY AS DE-TRADITIONALIZATION -- PHILOSOPHY AS TRADITION -- PHILOSOPHY AS INVENTED TRADITION -- SEDIMENTATION, REACTIVATION, DECONSTRUCTION -- NOTES -- 3.6 'Discussions, or phrasing "After Auschwitz"' -- Part 4: Literature -- 4.1 'Derrida's topographies' -- NOTES -- 4.2 'Autobiography as de-facement' -- NOTE -- 4.3 'Ghost writing' -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4.4 'The phantom review' -- NOTES -- 4.5 'Hamlet's dilemma' -- NOTES -- 4.6 'The ghosts of critique and deconstruction' -- NOTES