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    Forms in the Abyss
    A Philosophical Bridge Between Sartre and Derrida

    Steve Martinot (Author)

    9781592134403

    Paperback / softback, published 15 September 2007

    320 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.43 kg

    A groundbreaking effort to find the "common language" between two of the most important philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century, Forms in the Abyss promises to be one of the most significant contribution to our critical understanding of western thought in recent memory.

    Chapter 1: Introduction                                                                        1
         History and Writing
         The Metaphysics of a Common Language
         The Narrative of Metaphysics
         The Historical Dimension
         A Common Uncommonality

    Chapter 2: The Form of Uncommon Logic                                         37
         Invention
         DiffÉrance
         NÉantisation
         On Heidegger

    Chapter 3 - The Parameters of Homology                                          73
         Extensions of the Double Non-negation
         Sartre's Use of the Skew Relation as a Formalism
         Derrida's Use of the Skew Relation in his Thematics
              The Middle Voice
              Always Already

    Chapter 4: Form and Structure                                                          103
         On Form
         On Structure
         The Derridean Circle
         Mediation
         The Triadic Circle in its Historical Moment 
         Conclusion: The Structures of Ethnocentrism

    Chapter 5: The Look and its Inner Narrativizations                         150
         The Look
              The other-as-object
              The Look
         The Meta-narrativity of the Look
         A Critique and Extension of the NMN-structure
         The Form of Form

    Chapter 6: The Sartre-Derrida Homology                                        180
         The Inside of the Outside, the Supplement
              A Note on "Infrastructure"
         Separation in Immediacy, the Hymen
         The Role of Narrative
         The Social Text of the Glyph
         Dissemination
         Reading the Imagination as Reading
         Conclusion

    Chapter 7: Circularities and Foundations                                        238
         Bringing the Incommensurable into Dialogue
         The Reader
         The Circle
         Derrida's Deconstruction of the Subject
         Sartre's Deconstruction of the Subject

    Chapter 8: A Theory of Dialogue                                                   270
         An Elementary Particle of the Social
         Being for Others as a Micro-socius
         The Boundary between Subjectivities
         The Ontological Structure of Dialogue
         The Semiotic Structure of Dialogue
         The Derridean Moment of the Social
         Listening and (Re)Construction
         Conclusions

    Chapter 9: A theory of language                                                   314
         Shifts in Social Semiosis
         The Circle and the Social
         The Colonial Principle
         Chauvinism and the Sundering of the Circle.
         On Metaphysics
         A Third Domain?
         The Circle as Analysand

    Endnotes                                                                                       357

    Bibliography                                                                                 427
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