Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Sources of Derrida's Indirectness: Language,
Metaphysics, Critique
1. Why There Can Be No Derridean Theory of Language
"This Incompetence of Science . . ." Of Grammatology's
Opening Complication
Language: The "Effacement of All its Limits"
What a Derridean "Theory" Would "Oppose": The "Traditional
Determination" of Writing
What a Derridean "Theory" Would "Oppose" to the Traditional
Determination: What Is "Generalized" Writing?
Why "Retain the Old Name"? Toward "Acts of Writing"
Conclusion
2. The Inextricability of Metaphysics
The "Structural Figure": Demarcation, Opposition, Hierarchy,
Presence
The "Historical Totality": Epoch, History, the Future, and
Beyond
Overcoming Philosophy's Self-Overcoming
Conclusion
3. The Question of Justification and the Law of Resemblance:
Empiricism-Skepticism-Critique
Empiricism: Deconstruction and Method
Skepticism: Deconstruction and Self-Contradiction
Critique: Deconstruction and Vulnerability
Conclusion
Part II. Movement and Opposition: From Hegel to Derrida
4. Hegel's Movement of the Concept and the Limits of the
Understanding
The Origins of Hegelian "Movement" and the Critique of the
Understanding
What Exceeds Reflection Is Its Own Movement
The Affirmation of Limits in Hegel's Response to Kant
The Difference Essay and the Need for/of Philosophy
Hegel's Early Problem of Philosophical Exposition: Skepticism and
the Necessity of Self-Contradiction
The Problem of Speculative Exposition in the Phenomenology of
Spirit
The Speculative Proposition
Conclusion
5. Derrida's "Textual Maneuvers": Exceeding the Opposition to
Hegelianism Contributions Situating Hegel in Derrida's
Development
"Tympan": The Limits of Philosophy and the Need to Write
Otherwise
"Hors Livre" and the Multitude of Derrida's Hegels
Conclusion
Part III. Heidegger: The Preservation of Concealment
6. The Transition to Transitional Thinking: From Being and
Time to the Contributions
The Movement of Showing of Itself by Itself: the Circularity of
Being and Time
The Complication of "Being-in" and the Opening of Being and
Time
Introduction to the "Transitional Thinking" of the Contributions
to Philosophy (Of the Event)
The "Cessation of all Overcoming"
What Turns? From Being and Time to the
Contributions
Conclusion
7. Reticence and Exposition: Heidegger's Contributions to
Philosophy (Of the Event)
Style and Systematicity: The Conjuncture of the
Contributions
The Contributions' "Reflection" on its Own Language:
Denkerisches Sagen and the Limits of Representation
Do the Contributions Preserve or Overcome the Failure to Say
Beyng?
Bearing Silence, Withdrawal, and in the
Parmenides-Lectures
Reticence and Sheltering in "On the Essence of Truth"
The Philosophical Necessity to be Unassertive: Stimmung and
its Distinction from Erlebnis
Conclusion
Part IV. Of Derrida's Heideggers: Style, Affirmation,
Responsibility
8. The Question of Style: Heidegger, Nietzsche and the
Heterogeneity of the Text
Nietzsche's "Feminine 'Operation' "
Does Heidegger Reduce the Plurality of Nietzsche's Styles?
Derrida's Two Heideggers: Ereignis Outside the Hermeneutic
Circle
Perhaps: "I Have Forgotten My Umbrella"
Conclusion
9. Strategy and Responsibility: Derrida, Heidegger, and the Ethics
of Complicity
Of Spirit and the Unavoidable
Irreducible Complicity and the Desire for Non-Contamination
Unprecedented Responsibilities and Affirmation "Before" the
Question
The Undeconstructible and the Vulnerability of Justice
Conclusion
Afterword
Philosophical Indirections
Indirectness and the Question of Critique
Necessity and Motivation: Performativity and Responsibility
The Philosophical Tradition
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Johan de Jong is Assistant Professor of Continental Philosophy at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
"The scope and focus of this book is unusual and requires a lot of mastery of various periods and ideas in philosophy. It stands in a category of its own. For those familiar with the ambitious trajectory in Western ontology and modern philosophy that connects and runs through Hegel, Heidegger, and Derrida, this book will be a thrill to read." — Emilia Angelova, Concordia University
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