MARTIN MCQUILLAN is Professor of Cultural Theory and Analysis at the University of Leeds, UK. His recent publications include Textual Activism: deconstruction after 9/11 and The Politics of Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy.

• Acknowledgements Note on Contributors Epigraph: Deconstruction Reading Politics ; J.Higgins Introduction: 'Three Colours'; M.McQuillan Eternity and a Day, or, an 'endless foreword': Tout dire ; J.Wolfreys The First Time Somewhere Twice: Antonomasia on (the) Pain of Extinction; J.Leavey Jr Deconstruction not reading politics; T.Docherty Night Writing; N.Royle Will Literary Study Survive the Globalization of the University and the New Regime of Telecommunications?; J.Hillis Miller Democracy's Fiction: Everything, Anything, and Nothing at All; P.Kamuf The Injustice of Truth: Notes Toward a Feminist Politics; D.Elam Unpacking Homi Bhabha's Library: The Postcolonial Archive; E.Byrne Badiou and Deconstruction: The Politics of Reading Beckett; A.Gibson Raymond Williams and Deconstruction; J.Higgins À propos of Marx, Attribute to Derrida: A Note on a Note in Margins of Philosophy ; W.Maley Homoeconopoeisis II: Presents, Technology, Enjoyment; F.Botting & S.Wilson Notes Index