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.

Writing and consistency -- Consistency and repetition -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index.

In Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines, Marian Hobson gives us a thorough and elegant analysis of this controversial and seminal contemporary thinker. Looking closely at the language and the construction of some of Derrida's philosophy, Hobson suggests the way he writes, indeed the fact he writes in another language, affects how he can be understood by English speakers. This superb study on the question of language will make illuminating reading for anyone studying or engaged with Derrida's philosophy.

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