¹ Two authors who evidence this further thought, in very different directions, are Dews, Peter, Logics of Disintegration (London: Verso, 1987), esp. Ch. 1Google Scholar, where he tries to show how deconstruction is prefigured, and some of its perplexities resolved in the work of Fichte and Schelling; and Gasché, Rodolph, The Tain of the Mirror (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1986)Google Scholar, whose aim seems to be to treat deconstruction as a deepening of the transcendental project, a Husserlian graft.

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¹¹ Such a logic, of ‘infrastructures’, is outlined by Gasché in The Tain of the Mirror (see note 1).

¹² I discuss this further in the section on ‘Textual Idealism’ below.

¹³ ‘Violence and Metaphysics’, in Writing and Difference, trans. Bass, Alan (University of Chicago, 1978).Google Scholar

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¹⁵ Christina Howells has made an excellent start with her ‘Sartre and Derrida: Qui Perd Gagne’, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 13, No. 1 (1982), 26–34.Google Scholar

¹⁶ Speech and Phenomena, trans. Allison, David (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973).Google Scholar

¹⁷ Peter Dews’ fascinating version of this thesis (see his Logics of Disintegration) (note 1, above), deserves more subtle treatment than I offer here.

¹⁸ ‘Différance’, in Margins of Philosophy, trans. Bass, Alan (University of Chicago Press, 1982).Google Scholar

¹⁹ Caputo, John's most original work is best represented by his Radical Hermeneutics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987)Google Scholar. For ‘cold hermeneutics’, see Ch. 7.

²⁰ Someone who does is Rose, Gillian in her Dialectic of Nihilism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984)Google Scholar. Her Ch. 8, on Derrida, deserves separate treatment.

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²⁴ Ibid., 66. Here he insists on materialism precisely to avoid ‘a new selfinteriority, a new “idealism”, if you will, of the text’.

²⁵ Of Grammatology, op. cit., Pt II, Ch. 2, 158.

²⁶ Ibid.

²⁷ Ibid., 159.

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³¹ I am alluding here to a remark by Heidegger in ‘Language’, in his Poetry Language, Thought, trans. Hofstadter, A. (New York: Harper & Row)Google Scholar, in which he says (à propos of understanding language) that he is not trying to go anywhere, but for once to get to where we are already.