The Origins of Deconstruction

Foreword: 'Taught by Love'; M.McQuillan Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Origins of Deconstruction: Derrida's Daughters; I.Willis PROLOGUE Jacques Derrida, 'Between the Writing Body and Writing ': An Interview with Daniel Ferrer Hélène Cixous, 'First of All (from the Margins) I am a Reader Reading': An Interview with Daniel Ferrer PART I: INCUBATION Dating-Deconstruction; M.Froment-Meurice The Course of a General Displacement, or, The Course of the Choreographer; L.Turner Feminine Endings: Dido's Telephonic Body and the Originary Function of the Hymen; I.Willis On Prejudice and Foretelling 2; T.Docherty Extremes Meet; J.M.Rabate PART II: INAUGURATION The Opening to Infinity: Derrida's Quasi-Transcendentals; C.Colebrook Splitting the Origin: Writing and Responsibility; M.Grebowicz Derridean Beginning and Deleuzian Becoming; P.Patton 'Words of Air': On Breath and Inspiration; C.Baracchi PART III: INSTALLATION Illegibility: On the Spirit of Origins; J.P.Leavey Origins of Deconstruction? Deconstruction, That Which Arrives (If It Arrives); J.Wolfreys Philosophy of Cinders and Cinders of Philosophy: A Commentary on the Origins of Deconstruction and the Holocaust; R.Eaglestone The Beginnings of Art: Heidegger and Bataille; G.Bucher Aesthetic Allegory: Reading Hegel after Bernal; M.McQuillan Notes Index