Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Algeria -- 1.1 The Tradition -- 1.2 Family -- 1.3 Culture -- 1.4 During the War -- 1.5 The Lycée -- 1.6 André Gide -- 2 Paris and the ENS -- 2.1 Boarding School -- 2.2 Husserl -- 2.3 Husserl's Development -- 2.4 'Violence and Metaphysics' [1964] -- 2.5 Levinas -- 2.6 Althusser and Marxism -- 2.7 The Student Generation of the 1950s and 1960s -- 2.8 Psychoanalysis -- 2.9 Michel Foucault -- 3 After ENS -- 3.1 Harvard -- 3.2 The War of Algeria -- 3.3 Cerisy-la-Salle, 1959 -- 3.4 Derrida's Early Critique of the Science of Science -- 3.5 The Prix Cavailles -- 4 The First Book -- 4.1 Husserl's 'Origin of Geometry' -- 4.2 Husserl's 'Origin of Geometry': An Introduction[1962] -- 4.3 Freedom -- 4.4 Writing: The Linguistic Turn -- 5 Against Structuralism -- 5.1 Thoughts on Althusser -- 5.2 'Force and Signification' -- 5.3 1963-65 -- 5.4 'Structure, Sign and Play' -- 5.5 'Freud and the Scene of Writing' -- 6 Structures in French Thought -- 6.1 Structuralism -- 6.2 Post-Structuralism -- 6.3 Psychoanalysis and Jacques Lacan -- 7 1967 -- 7.1 Speech and Phenomena [1967] -- 7.2 Of Grammatology [1967] -- 8 Avant-garde Philosophy -- 8.1 May '68 -- 8.2 Margins of Philosophy -- 8.3 Dissemination -- 9 America: Derrida as Literary Theory -- 9.1 The 1970s -- 9.2 Travel -- 9.3 Life death and the Other -- 9.4 America -- 9.5 De Man's Response to Derrida's Of Grammatology -- 9.6 Derrida and the Literary -- 9.7 Tel Quel -- 9.8 1972 -- 9.9 Spurs, Nietzsche at Cerisy [1972] -- 10 Glas -- 10.1 Glas [1974] -- 10.2 Psychoanalysis in Glas -- 11 GREPH -- 11.1 GREPH -- 11.2 The Estates General for Philosophy -- 12 Yale -- 12.1 After Glas -- 12.2 Yale -- 12.3 Paul de Man, Memoires -- 12.4 Limited Inc. [1977] -- 13 The Post Card -- 13.1 Derrida and the Post/Geschick -- 13.2 The Postal System -- 14 Nietzsche and Heidegger -- 14.1 A Late Start.

14.2 Given Time -- 14.3 Living On: Borderlines -- 14.4 The Truth in Painting -- 14.5 Otobiographies -- 15 The 1980s -- 15.1 Influence and Opposition -- 15.2 Levinas -- 15.3 'Of an Apocalyptic Tone' [1980] -- 15.4 'Psyche: Inventions of the Other' -- 15.5 The Early 1980s -- 15.6 Literature, Aesthetics and Politics -- 15.7 The International College of Philosophy -- 15.8 The Mid-1980s -- 15.9 'Khora' -- 16 1987-90, Deconstruction and National Socialism -- 16.1 Crisis in the Politics of Deconstruction -- 16.2 Of Spirit [1987] -- 16.3 The Assault on de Man and Heidegger -- 16.4 'Force of Law' [1989] -- 16.5 The Gulf War -- 17 Autobiographical Years, 1990-91 -- 17.1 Memoires of the Blind -- 17.2 Jacques Derrida, [1991] -- 18 The Future of Democracy and the Very Worst Moment of Capitalism -- 18.1 The Right to Philosophy from the Cosmopolitan Point of View -- 18.2 The Other Heading: Europe -- 18.3 Resistances of Psychoanalysis [1993] -- 19 Derrida's World: Confronting Marx -- 19.1 Final Major Works -- 19.2 Spectres of Marx [1993] -- 20 The Politics of Friendship -- 20.1 The Politics of Friendships [1994] -- 20.2 'Nietzsche and the Machine' -- 21 Derrida's Religion -- 21.1 Messianism -- 21.2 'Faith and Knowledge' -- 21.3 Late Publications -- 22 Thoughtful Welcoming of the Other, Death -- 22.1 'On Cosmopolitanism' -- 22.2 'Derelictions of the Right to Justice (But what are the sans-papiers lacking?)' -- 22.3 'On Forgiveness' -- 22.4 'As If It Were Possible' -- 23 2000 Onwards -- 23.1 A Contemporary Philosopher -- 23.2 Philosophy in a Time of Terror: 9/11 -- 23.3 Life death -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.