The Tain of the Mirror Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection

9. A System beyond Being 177
The Infrastructural Chain 185
The General Theory of Doubling 225
The General System 239

PART THREE
Literature or Philosophy?
10. Literature in Parentheses 255
11. The Inscription of Universality 271
Writing 271
Text 278
Metaphor 293

Notes 321
Bibliography 336
Index 343


Introduction 1

PART ONE
Toward the Limits of Reflection
1. Defining Reflection 13
2. The Philosophy of Reflection 23
3. The Self-Destruction of Reflection 35
Isolated Reflection 35
Philosophical Reflection 36
Speculative or Absolute Reflection 38
4. Identity, Totality, and Mystic Rapture 55
5. Post-Hegelian Criticism of Reflexivity 60
6. Beyond Reflection: The Interlacings of Heterology 79

PART TWO
Ön Deconstruction

7. Abbau, Destruktion, Deconstruction 109
8. Deconstructive Methodology 121
The Propaedeutics of Deconstruction 124
Akainst Neutrality 136
Infrastructural Accounting 142
The Marginal Inscription of the Ground 154
The Bipartite Operation of Deconstruction 163