MICHAEL THOMAS is Associate Professor in English Communication at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan. Previously he taught at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

'Through offering...an 'introduction' to Derrida's work in the context of literary studies, it also provides the advanced student of Derrida and researchers who specialize in the field of literary theory, poststructuralism, and 'deconstruction' much to consider, and equally much to reassess...one can only wish that there were more books of this quality on Derrida.' - Professor Julian Wolfreys, Department of English, University of Florida, USA

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction The Task of the Translator: Translation as Transformation Interpretation and Overinterpretation: Deconstruction in America The Deconstruction of a Pedagogical Institution: Derrida and the 'Principle of Reason' The Postmodern Political Condition: Deconstruction and Enlightenment The Politics of the Proper Name: Nietzsche, Derrida and De Man Disfigured Maintaining the Presence of Marx: Marxism and Deconstruction Afterword: Legacy Bibliography Index of Works by Jacques Derrida Index