Cover -- Table of contents -- Introduction: On Contemporary French Philosophy, Specters of Hegel, Dialectics, and Modernity -- Part 1: Specters of Totality -- Preliminary remarks -- Chapter 1: The Insufficient Totality -- Ecstasy Beyond Totality -- Ethics beyond Totality -- Chapter 2: The Impossible Totality -- Un-divine History -- Inhuman History -- Chapter 3: The Dangerous Totality -- Ideology and the Problem of Communism -- The Crisis of Meta-narratives and the Problem of Capitalism -- The Ethical Relation and the Problem of Politics -- Part 2: Specters of Rupture -- Preliminary remarks -- Chapter 1: Ruptures with Being -- Chapter 2: The Ruptured Subject and the Problem of the Other -- Chapter 3: Ruptured History. Toward Dispersion -- Part 3: Specters of Dispersion -- Preliminary remarks -- Chapter 1: The Differend as the Stakes of Thought -- Philosophy and Science -- Philosophy, Language, and Metalanguage -- Beyond Ethics and Politics: Philosophy as Art -- Chapter 2: Difference as Repetition -- Chapter 3: Deconstruction of différance -- Afterword: Post-dialectics and Postmodernity -- Main references.