Deconstruction in a Nutshell (Web PDF) von Jacques Derrida

Acknowledgements | xi
Abbreviations | xiii

Introduction (2020): Specters of Derrida by John D. Caputo | xix

Part One
The Villanova Roundtable: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida

Part Two
A Commentary: Deconstruction in a Nutshell

1. Deconstruction in a Nutshell: The Very Idea (!) | 31
The Aporetics of the Nutshell | 31
The Axiomatics of Indignation (The Very Idea!) | 36
Apologia: An Excuse for Violence | 44
Nutshells, Six of Them | 47

2. The Right to Philosophy | 49
Of Rights, Responsibilities, and a New Enlightenment | 49
Institutional Initiatives | 60
Between the "Department of Philosophy" and a Philosophy to Come | 69

3. Khora: Being Serious with Plato | 71
A Hoax | 71
Deconstruction is Serious Business | 74
An Exorbitant Method | 77
Khora | 82
Two Tropics of Negativity | 92
Differance: Khora is Its Surname | 96

4. Community Without Community | 106
Hospitality | 109
Identity Without Identity | 113
An Open Quasi-Community | 121

5. Justice, If Such a Thing Exists | 125
Doing Justice to Derrida | 125
Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice | 129
The Gift | 140
Dike: Derrida, Heidegger, and Dis-junctive Justice | 151

6. The Messianic: Waiting for the Future | 156
The Messianic Twist in Deconstruction | 156
Faith Without Religion | 164
The Messianic and the Messianisms: | 168
-Which Comes First? | 168
-When Will You Come? | 178

7. Re-Joyce, Say "Yes" | 181
Between Husserl and Joyce | 182
The Gramophone Effect | 184
Joyce's Signature | 189
Inaugurations: Encore | 198

A Concluding Amen | 201

Bibliography | 203
Index of Names | 209
Index of Subjects | 213