Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida

Martin McQuillan is professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at KingstonUniversity, UK, where he is also Co-Director of The London Graduate School. He is a literary theorist, cultural critic and author and editor of many books and essays including Roland Barthes (or the profession of cultural studies) (Palgrave, 2011), Deconstruction After 9/11 (Routledge, 2009) and Deconstruction Reading Politics (Palgrave, 2008).Joanna Callaghan is senior lecturer in filmmaking at the University of Sussex, UK. She is a practising filmmaker and director of production company Heraclitus Pictures. Contributors: Geoffrey Bennington, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Emory University, USA; Ellen Burt, Professor of French and Italian, UC Irvine, USA; Catherine Malabou, Professor of Philosophy, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, UK; J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine, USA; Samuel Weber, Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities, Northwestern University, USA

• Acknowledgments / Notes on Contributors / Trailer, Joanna Callaghan and Martin McQuillan / Illustration, Martin McQuillan / Love in the Post: Screenplay, Joanna Callaghan and Martin McQuillan / Credits / Reflections, Joanna Callaghan / The Legs of Freud, Martin McQuillan / A Post Card for Kittler, Martin McQuillan / Autobibliographies, Martin McQuillan / The Sex Lives of the Philosophers, Martin McQuillan / Eros in the Age of Technical Reproductability, Theo Marks / Interviews, Geoffrey Bennington, Ellen Burt, Catherin Malabou, J. Hillis Miller, Samuel Weber, David Wilson / Filming Deconstruction/Deconstructing Film, Jonathan Dronsfield

Love in the Post is the book of the film of the book of the postcard of the . . . bonfire, or at least of what Derrida characterizes as a ‘catastrophic’ overturning. Joanna Callaghan and Martin McQuillan reassign to The Post Card, as did their film, their own mischievous sense of order. Their addition of reflections on making the film, a series of commentaries and extended interviews makes a splendid sequel to this grand philosophical adventure.