Last Fortress of Metaphysics

Francesco Vitale is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Salerno, Italy. He is the author of Biodeconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences, also published by SUNY Press, and the author and editor of several books in Italian on Derrida and contemporary French philosophy. Mauro Senatore is a British Academy Fellow at Durham University in the United Kingdom and Adjunct Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at the Instituto de Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile. He is the author of Germs of Death: The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida, also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Law of the Oikos: Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of the Dwelling2. The House in Deconstruction: Notes on Derrida and the Law of the Oikos3. Jacques Derrida and the Politics of Architecture4. Mythographies: Toward an Architectural Writing5. Writing Space: Between Tschumi and Derrida6. Divergent Traces: Peter Eisenman as an Interpreter of Deconstruction7. Spacing: The Architecture of DeconstructionNotesBibliographyName Index

"Although there has been some discussion of the intersection of deconstruction and architecture in the past, mostly among architects and architectural critics, Vitale's work is distinguished by the fact that it is written by a true philosopher who has a much more acute sense than has usually been the case of the philosophical underpinnings of Derrida's exchanges with Tschumi, Eisenman, and others. Vitale is throughout concise, precise, insightful, and often brilliant." — Geoffrey Bennington, author of Interrupting Derrida