Introduction. Deconstruction is Here, Now, in America; Between Politics and Philosophy. The Strategic Occupation of the Aufhebung. The Call of Deconstruction. Chapter 1: Tracing the Sign The French Reception of Hegel. Kojeve’s Hegel. Hyppolite’s Hegel. Derrida’s Hegel. Chapter 2: Signing the Trace Walter Benjamin and the Language of Names. Suspended over the Abyss: The Task of the Translator. Chapter 3: The Messianic without Messianism Marx and Justice. Aristotle and the ‘Now’. From Now ‘til Eternity. Ghosts and Singularity. Chapter 4: Mourning Terminable and Interminable: Law and (Commmodity) Fetishism The Haunting of the Commodity. ‘Breaks in Gradualness – Leaps!’. The Haunting of the Law Chapter 5: Justice, Law and Antigone’s Singular Act Glas and the Family. Hegel and The Antigone. The Law of Law. ‘The Law of Law, Always in Mourning; Justice/Law and Sexual Complementarity. Chapter 6: Generalizing the Economy of Fetishism Freud’s Fetish. Playing Two Scenes at Once. Feminism and Deconstruction. Conclusion: End of Metaphysics: Who is the Friend?. Rogues, Democracy and Autoimmunity
Biography
Catherine Kellogg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta
