Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction

Contents

Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida xiii Introduction xv 1 The Success of Deconstruction: Derrida, Rorty, Gasché, Bennington, and the Quasi-Transcendental 3 2 “A Consistent Problematic of Writing and the Trace”: The Debate in Derrida/Husserl Studies and the Problem of Derrida’s Development 32 3 Derrida’s 1962 Interpretation of Writing and Truth: Writing in the “Introduction” to Husserl’s Origin of Geometry 53 4 The Development of Deconstruction as a Whole and the Role of Le problème de la genèse dans la philosophie de Husserl 83 5 Husserl’s Circuit of Expression and the Phenomenological Voice in Speech and Phenomena 115 6 Essential History: Derrida’s Reading of Saussure, and His Reworking of Heideggerean History 158 Notes 219 Bibliography 297 Index 307 Contents ...