The Origins of Deconstruction

In these essays, a range of leading scholars seek both to investigate the historical, institutional and philosophical origins of deconstruction and to think through the problem of the idea of origin itself.

MARTIN MCQUILLAN is Professor of Cultural Theory and Analysis in the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.

IKA WILLIS is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol, UK, where she also teaches in the Department of English Literature.

Foreword: 'Taught by Love'	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: The Origins of Deconstruction - Derrida's Daughters	p. 1
Prologue
'Between the writing body and writing...': Jacques Derrida An interview with	p. 9
'I am an archreader': Hélène Cixous An interview with	p. 22
Incubation
Dating - Deconstruction	p. 41
The Course of a General Displacement, or, the Course of the Choreographer	p. 50
Feminine Endings: Dido's Telephonic Body and the Originary Function of the Hymen	p. 67
On Prejudice and Foretelling2	p. 83
Extremes Meet	p. 97
Inauguration
The Opening to Infinity: Derrida's Quasi-transcendentals	p. 119
Splitting the Origin: Writing and Responsibility	p. 143
Derridean Beginning and Deleuzian Becoming	p. 159
'Words of Air': On Breath and Inspiration	p. 173
Installation
Illegibility: On the Spirit of Origins	p. 195
Origins of Deconstruction? Deconstruction, That Which Arrives (If It Arrives)	p. 211
Philosophy of Cinders and Cinders of Philosophy: A Commentary on the Origins of Deconstruction and the Holocaust	p. 226
The Beginnings of Art: Heidegger and Bataille	p. 244
Aesthetic Allegory: Reading Hegel after Bernal	p. 255
Index	p. 280
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