Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Difference in Theory -- PART I: The Consequentiality of Bodies -- 1 The Nun Who Never Was -- 2 On the Matter of Bodies -- 3 The Body and the Text -- 4 Materiality, Language, and Money -- PART II: The Conflict of Theories -- 5 The Enlightenment Discovers Postmodernism -- 6 The Epistemology of Difference -- 7 Materiality, Resistance, and Time -- In-Conclusion. An Ethics of Theory -- 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.