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Front Cover — Jacques derrida — Copyright Page — Contents — Acknowledgements — List of abbreviations — Introduction — 1. Histories and transcendentals — Writing and difference — Sketching out the foreground: ‘writing’ ‘difference’ and ‘deconstruction’ — A detour round ‘writing’ — ‘Deconstruction’ as an articulation of philosophy and history of philosophy — Deconstruction and empiricism — Empiricism and transcendentality — Writing and universal conditions — Universal conditions and historicism — The ‘syntax’: transcendentals and historicity — The infinites — The two infinites — Husserl’s kantian Ideas and historicity — Infinity of and in Idea — The aporias of the infinite — History and absolute infinity — 2. Replications — Roots and the a priori — Writing and the ‘fold’ — Doubles — Reflexivity as mise-en-abyme — Reflexivity and subjectivity — Quotation — The doubling of irony — Indirect speech — Parody of/and philosophy — The modality of quotation — Reiterated modalities — 3. Strange attractors: singularities — Circuits of argument — A detour about language — Phantasms and fetishes — Time constructs — Singularities — The negotiation of the singular reference — Singulars and proper names — Other — Singularity and the Law — 4. Negatives and steps: ‘pas sans pas’ — Negation and the infinite: two forms of relation — Différance and Hegelian negation — The double bind and stricture — Stricture: connecting and constituting — The postal principle and the ‘pas sans pas’ — Sending — Tangled hierarchies — Return calls and histories — The unknown and the neuter — 5. Contacts — The random and connection — ‘Assembling’ in language or in a particular language — Nominalization and metaphor — ‘A non-classical dissociation of thought and language’ — ‘A subjectless transcendental field’? — Prelogic.