Jacques Derrida's philosophy of deconstruction has been a key reference in the social sciences for more than 25 years. This work, in four volumes, is a comprehensive, thematically organized review of the key secondary literature on Derrida's writing. It provides a systematic overview of the core conceptual vocabulary informing Deconstruction, identifying published works that most clearly and significantly discuss Derrida's thought.

Together these four volumes represent an essential reference for researchers and students in social theory, cultural studies, philosophy, literature and linguistics.

VOLUME ONE
PART ONE: METAPHYSICS
Deconstruction as Criticism - Rodolphe Gasch[ac]e
The Metaphysics of Presence - M C Dillon
The Problem of Closure in Derrida - Simon Critchley
Is Derrida a Transcendental Philosopher? - Richard Rorty
The Secret Name of Cats - Henry Staten
PART TWO: PHILOSOPHICAL DIFFERENCES
Derrida and Heidegger - Thomas Sheehan
Differentiating Derrida and Deleuze - Gordon Bearn
Derrida - Alan Schrift
Neitzsche Contra Heidegger
PART THREE: PHENOMENOLOGY
Husserl¿s Theory of Signs Revisited - Rudolph Bernet
Indication and Occasional Expressions - J Claude Evans
Is the Present Ever Present? Phenomenology and the Metaphysics of Presence - Rudolphe Bernet
The Relation as the Issue - Leonard Lawlor
Philosophical Extravagence in Merleau-Ponty and Derrida - Joseph Margolis
PART FOUR: DIALECTICS
Derrida and Hegel - John Protevi
Diff[ac]erance and Unterscheid
Hegel/Marx - Andrzej Warminski
Consciousness and Life
Spectre and Impurity - Nigel Mapp
History and the Transcendental in Derrida and Adorno
VOLUME TWO
PART ONE: LOGICS OF DECONSTRUCTION
Derrida and Self-Reference - Graham Priest
Derrida on Rousseau - Christopher Norris
Deconstruction as Philosophy of Logic
PART TWO: SEMIOTIC DIFFERENCES
Difference Unlimited - Barry Allen
Le Texte Quatri[gr]eme - Fran[ci]cois Laruelle
L¿[ac]ev[ac]enement Comme Simulacre
A Plague on Both Your Houses - Karen Green
PART THREE: ITERABILITY AND MEANING
With the Compliments of the Author - Stanley Fish
Minimalist Semantics - S Pradhan
Davidson and Derrida on Meaning, Use and Convention
Iterability and Meaning - Frank Farrell
The Searle-Derrida Debate
Truth Conditions, Rhetoric and Logical Form - S Wheeler
Davidson and Deconstruction
PART FOUR: DIALOGUE, INTERPRETATION, POSTMODERNISM
Destruktion and Deconstruction - Hans-Georg Gadamer
Vigilance and Interruption - David Wood
Derrida, Gadamer and the Limits of Dialogue
The Other of Justice - Axel Honneth
Habermas and the Ethical Challenge of Postmodernism
Prospects for Thinking Reconstruction Postmetaphysically - Mariana Pastephanou
Postmodernism minus the Quote Marks
PART FIVE: KNOWLEDGE, REPRESENTATION, SIMULATION
Derridäs Empirical Realism - Timothy Mooney
Brain Writing and Derrida - Karen Green
The Brain, the Mental Apparatus and the Text - Paul Cilliers
PART SIX: NATURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Complimentarity, Idealization and the Limits of Classical Conceptions of Reality - Arkady Plotnitsky
Thinking Technicity - Richard Beardsworth
Thinking Dia-Grams - Brian Rotman
VOLUME THREE
PART ONE: READING THE SUBJECT
On Being with Others, Heidegger-Derrida-Wittgenstein - Simon Glendinning
The Response of Ulysses - Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
PART TWO: METAPHOR AND TRANSLATION
Metaphor and Philosophy - Michael Morris
An Encounter with Derrida
Quasi-Metaphoricity and the Question of Being - Gasch[ac]e Rodolphe
Translation and Philosophy - Andrew Benjamin
PART THREE: THE ART OF JUDGEMENT
Derrida, Kant and the Performance of Parergonality - Irene Harvey
The Frontier - Geoff Bennington
Between Kant and Hegel
Women on the Edge of Modernity - Diane Elam
PART FOUR: FACTURE, FORM, EVENT
Frank Stella and Jacques Derrida - Charles Altieri
Toward a Postmodern Ethic of Singularity
The Object of Post-Criticism - Gregory Ulmer
PART FIVE: LITERATURE
The Rhetoric of Blindness - Paul de Man
Monsieur Texte - Geoffrey H Hartman
PART SIX: MATTER, REPETITION AND FRAMING IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
Projects for a Scientific Psychology - Elizabeth A Wilson
Freud, Derrida and Connectionist Theories of Cognition
The Pleasures of Repetition - Leo Bersani
The Frame of Reference - Barbara Johnson
Poe, Lacan and Derrida
Derrida, Empiricism and the Postal Services - Marian Hobson
VOLUME FOUR
PART ONE: TRACES OF THE OTHER
Neoplatonic Henology as an Overcoming of Metaphysics - Reiner Sch[um]urman
The Trace of Levinas and Derrida - Robert Bernasconi
Incommensurability and Otherness Revisited - Richard J Bernstein
La Pens[ac]ee de l¿[circumflex]Etre et la Question de l¿Autre - E Levinas
PART TWO: ETHICS AND ALTERITY
Comment Ne Pas Manger - David Wood
Deconstruction and Humanism
The Other¿s Decision in Me - Simon Critchley
What Are the Politics of Friendship?
Given Time and the Gift of Life - John Protevi
PART THREE: TEXTUALITY AND POWER
Deconstruction and Social Theory - Michael Ryan
The Case of Liberalism
Subaltern Studies - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Deconstructing Historiography
Crash Theory - Roy Boyne
The Ubiquity of the Fetish at the End of Time
PART FOUR: JUSTICE AND LEGALITY
The Relevance of Time to the Relationship between the Philosophy of the Limit and Systems Theory - Drucilla Cornell
Democracy and Difference - Seyla Benhabib
Reflections on the Metapolitics of Lyotard and Derrida
PART FIVE: ONTOLOGY AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE
Ontology and Equivocation - Elizabeth Grosz
Derridäs Politics of Sexual Difference
[ac]Eperon Strings - Robert Scholes
Bodies That Matter - Judith Butler
Somatic Compliance - Elizabeth A Wilson
Feminism, Biology and Science
PART SIX: MARXISM, SPECTRALITY AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
Marx¿s Purloined Letter - Frederic Jameson
Marx without Marxism - Terry Eagleton
Marx and Poststructuralist Philosophies of Difference - Eugene Holland
A Global Theory of Global Politics, Mimetic War and the Spectral State - James der Derian