Table of Contents
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
