Title of the Letter

Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe are Professors of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, France. They are the authors of The Literary Absolute, also published by SUNY Press. Nancy is also the author of The Inoperative Community. Lacoue-Labarthe authored Typography. François Raffoul is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. David Pettigrew teaches philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University.

• Translators' Preface Foreword Setting the Scene A Turn of Reading Part I The Logic of the Signifier 1. The Science of the Letter 2. Algorithm and Operation 3. The Tree of the Signifier 4. Signifiance Part II The Strategy of the Signifier 1. Strategy 2. System and Combination 3. Truth "Homologated" Index

"I advise you to read a book called The Title of the Letter. It is with the greatest satisfaction that I have read it. I could not encourage its distribution enough. I can say, in a way, if it is a question of reading, that I have never been read so well..." — Jacques Lacan