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Tables of Contents for The Ethics of Deconstruction
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Abbreviations
vii
Preface to Second Edition
xi
Prefatory Note and Acknowledgements
xiii
The Ethics of Deconstruction: The Argument
1
58
Introduction
1
3
Levinasian Ethics
4
5
Derrida and Levinas: An Emerging Homology
9
4
Derrida's Double-Handed Treatment of Ethics
13
7
Deconstructive Reading and the Problem of Closure
20
11
From Text to Context: Deconstruction and the Thought of an Unconditional Ethical Imperative
31
13
The Ethics of Reading: Hillis Miller's Version
44
15
Notes
49
10
The Problem of Closure in Derrida
59
48
Introduction
59
2
The Sense of Closure
61
2
The Genesis of Closure in Derrida's Reading of Husserl
63
5
The Closure of Metaphysics
68
8
Heidegger and Derrida: Closure and the End of Philosophy
76
12
Clotoral Reading
88
19
Notes
97
10
Clotural Readings I: `Bois' - Derrida's Final Word on Levinas
107
38
How the Work Works
108
13
How Levinas Writes his Work
121
8
How Levinas's Work does not Work
129
8
How the Work is Given to Levinas
137
8
Notes
141
4
Clotural Readings II: Wholly Otherwise: Levinas's Reading of Derrida
145
43
It's Today Tomorrow
146
10
Scepticism
156
13
Indication
169
19
Notes
182
6
A Question of Politics: The Future of Deconstruction
188
60
Introduction
188
2
The Question of the Question: An Ethico-Political Response to a Note in Of Spirit
190
10
Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy: Re-tracing the Political
200
19
A Levinasian Politics of Ethical Difference
219
17
Conclusion: Philosophy, Politics, and Democracy
236
12
Notes
241
7
Appendix 1: The Ethics of Deconstruction: An Attempt at Self-Criticism
248
19
Appendix 2: Habermas and Derrida Get Married
267
14
Appendix 3: Emmanuel Levinas
281
7
Index
288