Deconstruction Reading Politics

FRED BOTTING Professor and Director of the Institute for Cultural Research at the University of Lancaster, UKELEANOR BYRNE Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University. UKTHOMAS DOCHERTY Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, UKDIANE ELAM Former Professor of English Literature and Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University, WalesANDREW GIBSON Professor of Modern Literature and Theory in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London, UKJOHN HIGGINS Professor of English at the University of Cape Town, South AfricaPEGGY KAMUF Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, USAJOHN LEAVEY, JR., Chair of the English Department at the University of Florida, USAWILLY MALEY Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow, UKJ. HILLIS MILLER Distinguished Professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USANICHOLAS ROYLE Professor of English at the University of Sussex, UKSCOTT WILSON Reader in Cultural Theory at the University of Lancaster, UK

• Acknowledgements Note on Contributors Epigraph: Deconstruction Reading Politics ; J.Higgins Introduction: 'Three Colours'; M.McQuillan Eternity and a Day, or, an 'endless foreword': Tout dire ; J.Wolfreys The First Time Somewhere Twice: Antonomasia on (the) Pain of Extinction; J.Leavey Jr Deconstruction not reading politics; T.Docherty Night Writing; N.Royle Will Literary Study Survive the Globalization of the University and the New Regime of Telecommunications?; J.Hillis Miller Democracy's Fiction: Everything, Anything, and Nothing at All; P.Kamuf The Injustice of Truth: Notes Toward a Feminist Politics; D.Elam Unpacking Homi Bhabha's Library: The Postcolonial Archive; E.Byrne Badiou and Deconstruction: The Politics of Reading Beckett; A.Gibson Raymond Williams and Deconstruction; J.Higgins À propos of Marx, Attribute to Derrida: A Note on a Note in Margins of Philosophy ; W.Maley Homoeconopoeisis II: Presents, Technology, Enjoyment; F.Botting & S.Wilson Notes Index