DECONSTRUCTION A READER Editor Martin McQuillan ROUTLEDGE NEW YORK CONTENTS Acknowledgements ix A map of this book xii Introduction: Five strategies for deconstruction Martin McQuillan 1 Part 1: Avant la lettre 1.1 Karl Marx: from Capital 47 1.2 Sigmund Freud: 'A note upon the "Mystic Writing Pad"' 51 1.3 Georges Bataille: 'The meaning of general economy' 56 1.4 Walter Benjamin: 'Critique of violence' 62 1.5 Martin Heidegger: 'The task of destroying the history of ontology' 71 1.6 Edmond Jabes: 'The moment after' 80 1.7 PaulValery: 'In praise of water' 88 1.8 Maurice Blanchot: 'Friendship' 91 Part 2: Opening Remarks 2.1 Jacques Derrida: 'A number of yes (Nombre de oui)' 97 Part 3: Philosophy 3.1 Christopher Norris: 'Deconstruction, post-modernism and the visual arts' 109 3.2 Richard Rorty: 'Philosophy as a kind of writing' 121 DECONSTRUCTION: A READER 3.3 Rodolphe Gasche: 'Deconstruction as criticism' 126 3.4 Geoffrey Bennington: 'Genuine Gasche (perhaps)' 134 3.5 Simon Critchley: 'Black Socrates? Questioning the philosophical tradition' 143 3.6 Jean-Francois Lyotard: 'Discussions, or phrasing "After Auschwitz"' 154 Part 4: Literature 4.1 J. Hillis Miller: 'Derrida's topographies' 161 4.2 Paul de Man: 'Autobiography as de-facement' 171 4.3 Derek Attridge: 'Ghostwriting' 175 4.4 Nicholas Royle: 'The phantom review' 178 4.5 Catherine Belsey: 'Hamlet's dilemma' 190 4.6 Peggy Kamuf: 'The ghosts of critique and deconstruction' 198 Part 5: Culture 5.1 Geoffrey Bennington: 'Deconstruction is not what you think' 217 5.2 Andrew Benjamin: 'Derrida, architecture and philosophy' 220 5.3 Bernard Tschumi: 'Violence of architecture' 229 5.4 Richard Beardsworth: 'Thinking technicity' 235 5.5 Avital Ronell: 'Toward a narcoanalysis' 244 5.6 Judith Butler: 'Speech acts politically' 254 5.7 Fred Botting and Scott Wilson: 'Homoeconopoesis 1' 263 CONTENTS Part 6: Sexual difference 6.1 Diane Elam: 'Unnecessary introductions' 275 6.2 Robert Young: 'The same difference' 283 6.3 Barbara Johnson: 'Gender theory and the Yale School' 292 6.4 Rachel Bowlby: 'Domestication' 304 6.5 Alexander Duttmann: 'Recognising the virus' 311 6.6 Helene Cixous: 'What is it o'clock? or The door (we never enter)' 321 Part 7: Psychoanalysis 7.1 Geoffrey Hartman: 'Psychoanalysis: The French connection' 331 7.2 Nicholas Abrahams and Maria Torok: from The Wolf Man's Magic Word 340 7.3 Samuel Weber: 'The sideshow, or: Remarks on a canny moment' 351 7.4 Nicholas Royle: 'The remains of psychoanalysis (i): Telepathy' 361 7.5 David Wills: from Prosthesis 370 Part 8: Politics 8.1 Michael Ryan: 'Marx and Derrida" 379 8.2 Willy Maley: 'Spectres of Engels' 383 8.3 Bill Readings: 'The deconstruction of politics' 388 8.4 Gayatri Spivak: 'Practical politics of the open end' 397 8.5 Ernesto Laclau: 'Why do empty signifiers matter in politics?" 405 8.6 Homi K. Bhabha: 'Of mimicry and man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse' 414 VII DECONSTRUCTION: A READER Part 9: Ethics 9.1 Emmanuel Levinas: 'Jacques Derrida: Wholly otherwise' 425 9.2 Robert Bernasconi: 'The trace of Levinas in Derrida' 431 9.3 Drucilla Cornell: 'Post-structuralism, the ethical relation and the law' 443 9.4 Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: 'In the name of ...' 450 9.5 Jean-Luc Nancy: 'What is to be done?' 456 9.6 John D. Caputo: 'God is not differance' 458 Part 10: The work of mourning 10.1 Jacques Derrida: '(In memorium) Paul de Man' 467 10.2 Jacques Derrida: 'Text read at Louis Althusser's funeral' 471 10.3 Jacques Derrida: 'Adieu: Emmanuel Levinas' 476 10.4 Jacques Derrida: 'I'm going to have to wander all alone: Gilles Deleuze' 485 10.5 Jacques Derrida: 'Friendship-above-all [Amitie-a-tout-romple]: Jean-Francois Lyotard' 489 Part 11: Closing statements 11.1 Jacques Derrida and Pierre Mendes Frances: 'Open letter to Bill Clinton' 493 11.2 Jacques Derrida: 'Telepathy' 496 11.3 Jacques Derrida: 'The deconstruction of actuality: An interview with Jacques Derrida' 527 Bibliography 1: Jacques Derrida 555 Bibliography 2: Key publications of contributing authors 562 Index 574 VIII.