Cover -- Table of Contents 7 -- List of Abbreviations 11 -- I. Introduction: The strategy of deconstruction 15 -- I.I Exiting phenomenology and the critique of Western metaphysics 15 -- I.II The problematic of writing and the subject 18 -- I.III The problematic of writing and the other 21 -- I.IV The problematic of writing and literature 26 -- I.V The strategy of deconstruction and 'double writing' 32 -- I.VI The strategy of deconstruction and the rejection of method 34 -- I.VII Scope and structure of the book 38 -- 1. The reception of Derrida's thought 43 -- 1.1 Derrida and the question of writing 44 -- 1.2 Derrida and the question of politics 49 -- 1.3 Philosophy and the question of ethics 52 -- 1.4 Gasché: variations on the theme of difference 55 -- 1.5 Critical responses from analytical philosophy 61 -- 1.6 Rorty: from the public philosopher to the private ironist 63 -- 1.7 Frank: reading phenomenology otherwise than Derrida 64 -- 1.8 Counter-narratives of subjectivity 66 -- 2. The partial exit from phenomenology 69 -- 2.1 The deconstruction of the concept of the sign in Western metaphysics 71 -- 2.2 Husserl's theory of the sign as expression and indication 75 -- 2.3 Towards a philosophy of writing 81 -- 2.4 Différance, Writing and Subjectivity 85 -- 2.5 Différance and time 90 -- 2.6 Implications for the concept of the subject 93 -- 2.7 Concluding remarks 95 -- 3. Beyond the subject - 1: Deconstruction and the Gay Science of indeterminacy 99 -- 3.1 The age of Rousseau 100 -- 3.2 Frivolity and the deconstruction of Condillac's empiricism 105 -- 3.3 Structure and the deconstruction of empiricism's antipode 114 -- 3.4 Rousseau: authenticity, representation and the threat of writing 121 -- 3.5 Rousseau: the new logic of the supplement 124 -- 3.6 Concluding remarks 134 -- 4: Beyond the subject - 2: 'Passages and departures towards the other' 139.

4.1 Outside the subject 141 -- 4.2 The Questioning of the 'proper' 145 -- 4.3 Deconstruction and the philosophies of the cogito 154 -- 4.4 Derrida and Heidegger on the question of the subject 156 -- 4.5 The positing of the subject in terms of 'Who?' 159 -- 4.6 Autobiography, signature and subjectivity 161 -- 4.7 Beyond Heidegger and Levinas 168 -- 4.8 Critical responses 171 -- 4.9 Concluding remarks 179 -- 5. The other - 1: The deconstruction of the 'fraternal other' and the 'original valley of the other' 183 -- 5.1 The problematic of the other and the thought of Levinas 186 -- 5.2 The development of Derrida's thought on the other 188 -- 5.3 From the deconstruction of identity to the concept of the other 190 -- 5.4 Into the labyrinth: the other and the deconstruction of representation 193 -- 5.5 The concept of the other and its relation to repetition 196 -- 5.6 Appropriation and critique: Levinas and the early and late Derrida 201 -- 5.7 What is beyond the metaphysics of violence 204 -- 5.8 Levinas, Husserl and the 'alter ego' 207 -- 5.9 'The gift of the other' 211 -- 5.10 Alterity and sexual difference 212 -- 6. The other - 2: The gift, the politics and ethics of responsibility, and the other 215 -- 6.1 The politics of the other 215 -- 6.2 The call and the asymmetrical relation between the self and the other 219 -- 6.3 From narcissism to death 221 -- 6.4 The cinder as the remains of memory 223 -- 6.5 From the ghosts of politics to the politics of ghosts 224 -- 6.6 From the death of the subject to the subject through death as promise 227 -- 6.7 The politics of responsibility 229 -- 6.8 The tear: beyond the visible and the invisible 233 -- 6.9 The other as gift 238 -- 6.10 The gift of time 240 -- 6.11 The gift of death 243 -- 6.12 Concluding remarks 249 -- 7. Violence to the other: Religion, Hospitality and Forgiveness 253.

7.1 Religion, faith, messianism and the other 255 -- 7.2 Hospitality, cosmopolitics and violence to the other 260 -- 7.3 Forgiveness and the other 267 -- 7.4 Ricoeur and Derrida: On Forgiveness 273 -- 7.5 Concluding remarks 286 -- 8. Violence to the other: Limitrophy, animot, divanimality, the abyssal limit and the ends of Man 289 -- 8.1 Under the gaze of the other 293 -- 8.2 Animot: the trace and scent of the other 313 -- 8.3 Radical Alterity: Divanimality and another thinking of life 322 -- 8.4 Radical Otherness: Striking out being 325 -- 8.5 Post-globalization, politics and ethics: Europe, sovereignty, fundamentalism and messianic vision 329 -- 8.6 Concluding Remarks 333 -- 9. Conclusion: The self: particularity, reflexivity and recognition 335 -- 9.1 Benhabib: situating the self between the universal and the particular 336 -- 9.2 Ricoeur: oneself as another 337 -- 9.3 Taylor: the other, injunction andinter subjective recognition 341 -- 9.4 Epilogue 342 -- Bibliography 345 -- Bibliographical Appendix 361.