Abyss, 17–20, 152, 182, 196, 198, 199, 201, 213, 224, 227, 229–31, 237; ontological, 192; space of, 200; structural necessity of, 238
Absence, 52; and presence, 20; more fundamental, 10
Accident, 82
Actuality, 4
Aesthetic, transcendental, 143, 207, 235–6
Ama, 121
Analogy, 17, 102
Analysis, structures of, x
Animality, 167–8, 180–1, 189, 201; convergence of with divine, 196
Answer, 8
Archaeology, 23
Arche-trace, concept of, 82
Arche-writing, 82, 154–5, 157, 159–61, 242
Assumptions, metaphysical, 3
Astronomy, 7
Aufhebung, 102, 115, 123, 148, 207–8, 214; as distinct from usurpation, 77; in Hegel’s dialectical system, 76
Authenticity, 230
Author, 62, 64; intentions of, 67
Auto-affection, 145
Bedeutung, 66
Being, 115, 182; absence from presence, 23; as presence, 117; destiny of, 184–5, 188; house of, 158; in language, 187; language of, 117; shepherd of, 183; truth of, 182, 185
Betrayal, xii
Book, 222, 244; closure of, 127; shadow of, 127
Borrowing, 8, 30, 43, 78
Boundaries, 5
Canonization, ix
Castration, 28–29
Categories, 4
Center, 2
Chance, 46–7, 216; into necessity, 56
Chemistry, in relation to alchemy, 7
Closure, 6, 19, 81, 88; of the Book, 127
Code, 52
Commentary, xii, 23
Community, membership in the same, xi; philosophic, ix, xi
Completeness, 5–6, 15
Complicity, 83
Compulsion, hermeneutic, 61
Concept, 5, 9, 98, 103, 117, 150, 221; concept of, 46; constitution of, 156; limits of, 107; form of, 104; resources of, 30
Conception, immaculate, 18
Concepts, 19; proper, 15; pure, 4
Conceptuality, system of, 99
Conclusions, inverse, 67
Confusion, subjective, 10
Conscious, unconscious, 63
Consciousness, 103, 120, 135, 168–70, 189; deconstruction of, 34; displacement of, 172; movement of, 238
Constitution, 18–20; of space and time, 143
Contamination, essential, 74
Context, 90, 227, 239–40
Contradiction, 62, 79–80, 88
Contradictions, as irreducible and necessary, 78; textual, 42
Controversy, x
Crisis, 133
Criteria, 58; metaphysical, 56
Critic, 1
Criticism, 3; literary, ix, 23; reflexivity of, ix; tradition of, ix; traditional, x
Critics, literary, ix
Critique, 3, 5; critique of, 6; in relation to metaphysics, 7
Cruelty, theatre of, 23
Culture, 13
Dasein, 183, 188, 230, 232; authenticity of, 184
Death, 14, 106, 144–5, 190, 192, 194, 203, 225, 230, 234–5; abyss of, 197; as condition of the possibility of the sign, 66; force of, 144; forgetting of, 186; in constitution of subject and object, 180; my proper, 231; overcoming of, 107; own, 184; principle of, 152, 228–9; relationship to, 180; significance of as abyss, 145; subject’s relation to, 195; will to, 233; work of, 232
Deconstruction, ix, x, 1, 3–4, 14, 23, 26, 30, 33, 44, 62, 68; aim of, 6, 15, 174; and Husserl’s phenomenology, 85; as doubling commentary, 29; as not violating metaphysics, 68; as process, 74; as reduced to metaphysics, 36; as repeatable process, 29; attachment to metaphysics, 74; conditions of the possibility of, 59–60, 89; Derrida’s principle of principles, 86; deconstruction of, 88; deconstruction of totality, 87; double gesture of, 73; explicit limits of, 88; extending the limits of meaningfulness, 28; final gesture of, 77; foundations of scientificity, 34; goals or intentions, 25; in need of, 17; initial intention of, 81; legitimacy of, 54; le propre of, 24; new possibility of truth, 28; non-method as, 164; not neutral, 24; own necessary attachment, 78; proper to, 23; reduce the reduction, 89; reduction to metaphysics, 36; relation to phenomenology, 79; revelation of différance by, 88; risks of, 33; role of, 90; significance of, x; style of, 30; sustains itself as irreversible, 86; telos of, 87, 89; tradition of metaphysics, 6; ultimate target of project, 73; usurpation of metaphysics, 89; work of, 6, 28–9, 184
Demand, impossible, 13
Dependence, 50
Desire, 7, 54, 172; for pure presence, 104; for transcendental signified, 108, 111; Husserl’s obstinate desire, 54; philosophic, 128; satisfied, 13; thwarted, 13
Dialectics, in Hegel, 23, 140
Dichotomy, metaphysical, 37
Différance, 20,48–9, 73, 75–8, 83–7, 90, 96, 106, 118, 120–1, 128–9, 135–6, 138, 140, 145, 149, 157, 161, 167, 181, 185–6, 197–9, 202, 206–7, 209–10, 213, 215, 222, 231, 234, 236, 238, 244; a fortiori of, 76; as economy, 179, 205; as Idea in Kantian sense, 89; as inaugural movement, 160; as movement itself, 77; as a nickname, 212; as principle of representation, 203; as relation, 89; as space of inscription, 236; as temporality, 127; at the heart of presence, 76; constituted as a telos, 89; economy of, 62, 71, 76–7, 87, 90; effect of, 182; epoch of, 146, 162; excluded from metaphysics, 83; function of, 158; is abyss, 204; is productive, 159; its violence with usurpation, 77; movement of, 10, 14, 41, 239, 241, 243; name of, 211; ontological difference, 182; orbit of, 242; play of, 63, 188–9, 214–5, 232, 240; recogition of, 2; relation to death, 176; space of, 177; space of representation, 168; structure of, 147, 150, 152, 216, 225; use of, 85; usurpation by, 90; work of, 65
Difference, ontological, 185
Discourse, Freudian, 35; limit of philosophic, 93; Nietzschean, 35; philosophic, 94, 108; philosophical and non-philosophical, 95; significance of all, 94; usage of, 51
Disease, 32
Divinity, 201
Dogmatism, 55
Double bind, breaking of, 68
Dreams, 176; work of unconscious, 178
Duplicity, 42
Economy, 25, 28, 36, 43, 59, 69, 82, 87, 144, 189, 203, 209, 211, 218; as play, 67; definite, unified, 67; effect of an, 208; general, 86; general concept of, 205; larger, 86; of presence and absence, 144; questions of, 24; unites and differentiates, 90; whose laws can be revealed, 76
Effacement, 12, 116; essential, 193
Ego, empirical, 191; transcendental, 154, 190–1, 193
Eidos, 98, 119, 135
Ekstasis, 183
Empiricism, 23
Envelopment, 114, 116
Epistème, 28
Essence, 98, 124; and appearance, 71–2
Ethics, 171–2, 226–8; condition of, 162
Ethnocentrism, 70
Evidence, moment of, 10
Excess, 141, 153
Exclusion, 39, 64; gestures of, 40
Exemplarity, 37; in question, 56; model of, 216; structures of, 55
Experience, 4, 9–10, 13, 100, 160; all possible, 15; bounds of, 16; for Derrida, 10; Kant’s notion of, 10
Exposition, stylistic manner of, xi
Exteriority, 160–1
Face, 172
Falsity, 11, 107
Fiction, 11
Fil conducteur, 29, 32
Finitude, 32
Flux,165–6
Force, 128, 135, 197, 224; becoming-phenomenon of, 129; daemonic, 228–9; de faiblesse, 214; differences of, 176; of force, 132; of the imagination, 131; of the understanding, 237; play of, 198; the other language, 130
Forgetting, 139, 185
Form, 117, 122, 132; and content, 68; and matter, 68; concept of, 121; formation of, 149; metaphysical forms, 56
Fort/da, 227–8, 233
Framing, xv, 8
Gelassenheit, 131
Generalizability, limits of, 72
Gestures, deconstructive, 37, 51, 56, 59, 71, 76–7
Givenness, 118
God, 100, 108, 173–4; death of, 26, 182, 196–9
Good, 105
Grammatology, 27, 38, 64, 81, 86, 156; general, 82; possibility and impossibility of, 83–4
Ground, 6, 20
Guilt, 171–3
Habitation, 231
Harmony, 193; between reason and understanding, 9
Heliotrope, 123
Hermeneutics, 23
Hinge, 51
Historicity, fundamental, 8
History, 13, 26, 32, 98; and society, 223–41; arche and telos of, 98; end of, 208; metaphysics of, 103; notion of as concept, 102; Reason’s, 102; unity of, 103
Homology, 85
Humanism, 173, 182; limits of, 182
Humanity, 168
Ideal, in the Kantian sense, 25, 73, 81, 85–6, 89, 143, 240
Ideality, 73–4, 123, 237, 239
Idiom, 136–8, 128, 196; pure, 136, 139–40
Idiomatic, 136
Illegitimacy, xi
Illusion, 10; dialectical, 1; unavoidable, 16
Image, 145
Imagination, 142, 144–5; Kantian, 143; operation of, 131; power of, 144
Immediacy, 107
Impropriety, 43, 75, 85
Impurity, 32
Inauthenticity, 230
Incest, 226; original, 225
Inclusion, 39; and exclusion, 87
Infidelity, 47; fidelity to, 62
Infinity, 23, 142, 174, 200; as unnameable, 170
Inhabiting, 43
Inscription, 225; as habitation, 157, 240; in general, 158; worldly, 192
Institutions, material, 3
Intention, 80, 95; stated, 63
Intentionality, 34
Interpretation, ix, 9
Intersubjectivity, 123; as foundation for ethics, 172; basis of, 192; possibility of the constitution, 162; the condition of truth as, 134; transcendental, 193
Intertexuality, xv
Intuition, 4; absence of, 10, 51; a priori forms of, 242
Inversion, 68, 70, 73, 243; image of, 67
Irresponsibility, freedom of, 223
Judgment, 3; synthetic a priori, 4
Justice, 161
Knowledge, 3–4, 10, 134; absolute, 105–6, 158, 208; limits of, 15
Language, 39, 51, 108, 120, 123, 128, 132, 134, 138, 144, 146, 148, 150, 183, 214, 222–3; advent of, 137; and force, 135; as structure, 130; limits of, 129, 146; order of, 139; ordinary, 108; originary violence of, 136; patterns of, 27; powerlessness of, 130; property of, 147; resists temporality, 140; the element of truth, 107
Law, 4, 16, 18, 25–6, 28, 33, 48, 56, 124, 156, 224; a function of writing, 235; blindness to, 220; once written, 138; possibility of, 136
Lawbound, 19
Learning, 118
Le fil conducteur; 25
Le visage, 171
Liberty, 144
Life, 58; concept of, 45; empirical, 58; transcendental, 58
Limits, 14, 32, 38, 39, 80–1, 83, 88; explicit demarcation of, 80
Linear, 105
Linguistics, 55, 70; and grammatology, 88; Saussure’s, 46, 81
Logocentrism, 196; epoch of, 104
Logos, 2, 9, 11, 114, 117, 153–6, 158, 196, 199; epoch of, 105; own father, 11
Madness, 115, 189, 201, 213, 221–2; history of, 102; structure of, 222
Man, 26; definition of, 182; essence of, 183, 185, 196
Margins, 8
Master, and slave, 139, 156
Maternity, structure of, 209
Meaning, 2, 108, 151, 159–60, 177, 196; absence of intuition, 10; a collective affair, 223; condition of the possibility of, 34; constitution of, 161; contingent upon intuition, 10; determination of, 114; fall of, 161; lack of intuition, 2; limit of the concept, 31; related to intention, 101
Memory, 27, 175, 176, 178
Message, 52
Metaphor, 11, 19, 25, 32, 45, 101, 108, 123, 161, 187, 241; as displacement of meaning, 122; betrayal by, 187; concept of, 102; written, 177
Metaphors, biological, 30; Derrida’s system of, 32; system of sexual, 16
Metaphorization, movement of, 123
Metaphysics, 2–5, 7, 9–13, 16, 23, 26, 28, 33, 39, 41, 58, 72–3, 83, 90, 94, 100, 159, 199; a fortiori of all meaning, 10; and language, 141; and non-metaphysics, 67; all Western methods included, 97; as logocentrism, 106; as metaphor, 161; as such, 8, 99; closure of, 167; concept of, 5, 97–8; condition of the possibility of, 1, 4, 72, 117, 120; deconstruction of, 2, 14, 23, 25; Derrida’s, 11, 44; desire as the heart of, 7, 12; diversity of, 7; domination of, 211; end of, 8; essence of, 8; extensive range of, 9; exterior to différance, 83; “favorite child of reason,” 9; fiction of, 11; for Derrida, 13; foundations and origins of, 4; founding opposition, 68; freed from responsibility, 10; genealogy of, 116; history of, 7–8, 14, 17, 98, 108; identity of, 97; inhabits our language, 108; issue of, 7; limiting of, 26; limits of, 20; limits of logocentric, 31; necessary condition, 10; oppositions of, 18; origin of, 16, 103, 118; other as other, 36; placed in us, 12; profound unity, 100; question of, 94; relation to deconstruction, 43; relation to non-metaphysics, 56; science of, 7; structure of, 47, 114; system of force, 108; tools of, 8, 44; tradition of, 45, 63; transcendence of, 11; unity in all, 96; unity of, 103; usurpation of, 76–7, 89; what Kant calls, 10
Methodology, ix
Mimesis, 12, 28–9, 32
Mind, human, 18
Model, 172
Monads, 192; harmony of, 191
Movement, 150; active, 159
Multiple, 103
Myth, 11
Mythology, white, 117
Name, 147; proper, 101, 112, 155–6, 162, 212
Naming, as a violence, 136; proper, 137
Nature, 2, 4, 19, 179, 223; for Derrida, 4; for Kant, 9; gives way to, 12; laws of, 9, 16; seducing, 17; supplement of, 11
Necessity, 47; criteria of, 62
Non-contradiction, logic of, 66; principle of, 62–4, 67–8, 72, 200, 206
Non-intuition, 66
Non-simplicity, 32
Nothing, 140, 145
Object, 6; ideality of, 193; lack of intuition of, 2
Objectivity, 82, 147, 156; constitution of, 120, 200; conditions of the possibility of, 6
Ontotheology, 8–9, 25, 104, 174; undoing of, 26
Opening, 81
Opposition, of interior/exterior, 170; metaphysical, 6, 24, 164; predetermined, 37
Orientation, point of, 213
Origin, 2, 3, 5, 13, 49, 85, 87, 131, 166, 167, 234, 242; and telos, 87; as sign, 10; more originary, 20; non-origin of, 18
Originary, 84
Orthodoxy, x; deconstructionist, x
Other, 115, 137, 161, 162, 169, 170, 173, 191; relation of self and, 172
Otherness, 12
Overman, 198
Part, whole and, 115
Past, radical, 163, 176
Patricide, 209
Perception, 168
Pharmakon, 112
Phenomenology, 42, 45, 57, 67, 79, 84, 86, 134, 152, 165, 221, 243; double relation of deconstruction, 80; Husserl’s, 90, 133; of writing, 169; principle of principles, 133; transcendental, 23, 157, 164
Phenomenon, 129
Philosophy, xii, 6, 94, 98, 115; according to Derrida, 6; and non-philosophy, 114; as such, 8, 9; as heliotropic, 108; as theory of metaphor, 122; as totality, 107; boundaries of, 107; concept of, 8; continental, xi; death of, 93; deconstructive allegiance to, 80; discourse of, 101; history of, xii, 14, 34, 96; incompetence of, 149; limits of, 1; origins of, 131; possibility of, 98; relation of textuality to, xi; unity of, 96
Phonologism, 104, 151
Play, 147, 188
Poesis, 32
Practice, 62; textual, x, 29
Predisposition, metaphysical, 12
Presence, 13, 25, 34, 98, 103, 104, 124, 173, 186, 187, 194, 208, 219; and absence, 162; as criterion, 107; as trace of the trace, 122; criterion for evidence, 118; deconstruction of, 34; heart of, 52; living, 10; metaphysics of, 14, 15, 17, 34, 89, 99, 127, 152; originary, 10; philosophy of, 104; teleology of, 186
Present, 95, 105, 120, 167; living, 11
Presentation, 17; originary, 2
Presuppositions, x, 6, 38, 70; system of, 69
Principle, pleasure, 233; reality, 233
Principles, 86
Procedure, borrowing, 43
Production, unconscious textual, 27
Prohibition, 136
Proper, 5, 6, 140, 185; system of, 211
Propositions, synthetic a priori, 9
Propriety, 6
Protention, and retention, 164, 165, 166, 168, 182
Psychoanalysis, textual, 23
Psychology, transcendental, 157
Question, form of, 8, 48; exceeding of, 28; metaphysically structured, 48
Questionability, structure of, 96
Questions, book of, 23; left unasked, 40
Rationality, 154, 156, 183, 204
Reading, corrective, 23; privileged, x
Reason, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 17, 103, 104, 122, 155, 209; aberrations of, 16; call of nature, 9; circle of, 12; and consciousness, 6; contradiction in, 17; critique of pure, 23; and desire, 20; essentially unknowable, 17; for Hegel, 75; ideas of, 4, 15; independence of, 11; light of, 131; limits of, 18; natural destiny of, 15; nature of, 9, 18; play of, 11; pure, 5, 12; realm of, 11; substitute for nature, 220; voice of, 194
Recollection, 118
Reduction, transcendental, 129, 154–5
Repeatability, conditions of the possibility of, 66, 73
Repetition, 72–3, 85, 127, 167, 173, 176, 215, 232, 241; collective, 197; principle of, 203, 233–4; representative, 229; space of, 204, 214
Representation, xii, 2, 12, 17, 134, 144, 167, 203, 224; subject’s relation to, 180
Resistance, 54
Resources, 14, 30
Responsibility, 171
Retention, 173
Revolution, ix
Rights, 58
Sacred, 196, 201
Scène de l’écriture, 174
Science, 7, 28, 134, 147, 156; and philosophy, 153; constitution of its object, 82; incompetence, 149; knowledge as, 5; legitimate, 5; scientificity of, 6, 82, 194; sedimentation of, 192
Sciences, 5
Scientificity, 6; determination of, 60; possibility of, 65
Seduction, 15
Self-effacement, 29
Semiology, 23
Sensibility, 19
Sign, 2, 11–12, 17, 26, 29, 32, 39, 41, 63, 65, 75–6, 79, 85, 98–100, 107–108, 117, 123–4; absence of subject and object, 10; age of, 98; and symbol, 167–8; basic structure of, 74; can constitute objectivity, 107; effacement of, 118; for Derrida, 10; for metaphysics, 75; idea of, 73; in general, 57; meaningfulness of, 10; metaphysical determination of, 73; metaphysical notion of, 47; two types of, 44
Signature, 23, 101
Significance, philosophic, ix
Signification, 173; in general, 52
Signified, 120; as unbound ideality, 119; desire for transcendental, 111; independent, 111; relation of signifier to, 123; transcendental, 13, 108, 167, 225, 240
Signifier, 111, 119–20; and signified, 95; transcendental, 240
Society, 227
Space, 13; spatiality of, 150
Spacing, 121, 124, 160, 201, 235, 239; space of temporality, 150
Spatiality, 210
Speech, 65, 98, 151, 162
Sphere, eidetic, 27
Strategy, 2, 30
Structuralism, 23, 129
Structure, 205–6; signifying, 32
Subject, 2; empirical, 90; transcendental, 90
Subjectivity, absolute, 165; constitution of, 232; levels of, 191
Sublime, 237
Substitution, process of, 213
Supplement, 3, 12–3, 19, 23–4, 32, 75, 106, 121, 144, 150; as substitution, 219; concept of, 218; exorbitant, 205; law of, 225; logic of, 224
Supplementarity, 185; increment of, 188; play of, 20–3, 216–7, 228
Syllogism, 22, 53
Symbol, becoming-sign of, 65
Symptoms, 27, 30, 32
Taboo, 136
Technique, 149
Temporality, 36, 165, 210; constituting movement of, 168; movement of, 206
Tension, 63
Text, ix, xii, 17, 22, 29, 33, 50, 71, 145, 170, 173, 178, 215, 240; absence of, 178; as such, 31; context of, 212; essence of, 69; levels of, 78; structure of as symptom, 32; totality of, 200; true law of, 71; written, 26
Textuality, ix, 25, 42, 53, 141, 210, 217–8, 221; hierarchy in, 62; law of, 224; level of, 212; metaphysical control of, 27; philosophy of, x; structures of, x; two levels of, 63
Thanatos, and Eros, 176
Theology, negative, 182
Theory, metaphor of, 122; deconstructionist, x; literary, ix
Thought, 128; as index, 142
Time, 13, 103, 239; concept of, 80, 99, 105; continuity of, 105
Timing, 235; and spacing, 118
Tone, 61, 80
Totality, 6, 8, 97, 132, 142, 170; relation to infinity, 163
Trace, 33, 35, 43, 117, 121, 155, 164–8, 171–2, 176, 179, 212; life as, 176; movement of, 173; of the other, 163, 169, 174; relation to memory, 180; unmotivated, 48; written as objective, 192
Track, 27, 29, 43
Tradition, xi, xii
Tragedy, birth of, 134
Transcendence, 12
Transgressions, 19
Translatability, 14
Translation, 23, 111–2
Truth, 1, 9, 11, 28, 74, 80, 102, 118, 122, 154, 196; as logos, 104; in philosophic tradition, 2; order of, 139; origin of, 9; purity of, 123; relation to deconstruction, 25, 28
Unconscious, 163, 168, 174
Understanding, 2, 4, 9, 15, 19; condition of the possibility of, 124; constitutes nature as lawbound, 9; divine, 151; gives laws to nature, 9; pure concepts of, 9, 18
Unity, 7, 96
Universality, 72
University, 6
Usurpation, 64, 72, 82, 86, 88–9; act of, 76; necessity of, 65, 83
Valid, objectively, 4
Violation, 65
Violence, xii, 162; intersubjective, 162
Voice, 104, 107, 192
Will, 180
Women, 32
World, 183, 209; condition for the possibility of, 192; unveiled, 132; inverted, 243; objective, 191; play of, 207, 214
Writing, 11, 14, 17, 29, 32, 41, 65, 74, 106–7, 134, 146, 148, 151–3, 161–2, 200–1, 212, 215; advent of, 147; and speech, 195; as condition for the possibility of language, 150; as model for arche-writing, 160; as supplement par excellence, 151; beyond good and evil, 214, 227; condition of law, 194; condition of meaning, 195; conditions of the possibility of, 82; constitutes objectivity, 149; constitution of Being, 17; exceeds the limits of language, 147; general science of, 81; good and bad, 180; debasement of, 98–9; in relation to speech, 80; inscription as habitation, 128; magic pad, 163; metaphysical determination of, 41; model for, 59; more fundamental than language, 148; mystic pad, 178; phenomenology of, 160, 210–1; phonetic, 55, 59, 70; psychic, 175; relation to speech, 46, 61; role of, 237; scene of, 166; space of, 199, 242; structure of, 198, 202