Front Cover -- Derrida and the Political -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on translations -- Introduction -- 1. From Language to Law, an Opening onto Judgement: Saussure, Kafka, Derrida -- Introduction -- The trace, the violence of institution -- Law, judgement and singularity -- 2. The Political Limit of Logic and the Promise of Democracy: Kant, Hegel, Derrida -- Introduction -- Modernity and violence -- The limit of modernity -- The logic of Kantian morality -- Hegel's critique of Kant -- Contradiction, aporia and the fate of law -- 3. Aporia of Time, Aporia of Law: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida -- Introduction -- Heidegger's thinking of aporia: a politics of authentic temporality -- Levinas's thinking of aporia and the fate of the ethical -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.