Occasional Deconstructions

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 PART ONE FALSE STARTS 1. Reflecting on the Occasions of Introduction: Justifying the Unjustifiable or, Beginning Again 15 PART TWO IDENTITIES IN RUINS 2. Uncanny Temporalities, Haunting Occasions: Sunset Boulevard 35 3. Biography’s Ruins: The Afterlife of Mary Shelley 61 4. Between: Speculations 87 PART THREE APPARITIONING 5. Eternity and a Day or, an “Endless Foreword”: Tout dire 115 6. Citation’s Haunt: Spectres of Derrida 137 v 7. Occasions of Trauma and Testimony: Witnessing, Memory, and Responsibility 161 PART FOUR AFFIRMATIVE RESISTANCES 8. Origins of Deconstruction? Deconstruction, that which arrives (if it arrives at all) 191 9. Hauntology or the Political? (or, No Politics, Not Now): Always Already Deceived 209 10. Letter to Martin McQuillan, Concerning “the New International”: The Indelible Marx of Haunting 227 PART FIVE READING TO COME 11. Guilty Reading 249 Notes 303 Works Cited 355 Index of Proper Names 371 vi Contents ...