Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written

Chapter One--Introduction: The question of writing

Chapter Two: Being proper

1        Presence: the primordial scene

ii        Reification and contamination

iii      Dike: the order prior to order

2        The face and the mask

1        The gaze

i          Gazing visibility: gods and Being

iii      The origin of sight

iv      The hierarchy of gazes: from divine to animal

v        The gaze as encounter and conquest

i          Descartes' cogito

a.       That which is represented

b.      That which represents

ii        Protagoras' metron

iii      Heidegger's mindfulness

3        Limited and unlimited Being

Chapter Four: The dangers of writing

1        Logocentrism and metaphysics

i          The debasement of writing

2        Soul writing: Rousseau and Plato

3        The ontology of writing

Chapter Five: Presence under erasure

1        The ethics of contamination

2        From arche-writing to arche-castration

Chapter Six: The politics of writing

2        Writing and the discourse of the polis

3        Keeping the outside outside

4        Political dwelling

Chapter Seven: Being written

1        Being's voiceless voice

2        The handling hand

4        Hand/machine writing

5        Gaze-writing

6        What is called writing?

1        Dispirited intelligence

2        The hot flame of spirit

ii        Spirit and race

3        Inside: the spirit-restoring race

4        Outside: the writing animal

1        The ghost of Geist

2        Spirit on the double