This collection of essays thinks through deconstruction's relation to politics by explicating the text of Derrida in relation to political examples. Neither 'deconstruction' nor 'reading' nor 'politics' is left untouched in the encounters explored in this volume, dispelling the notion of a separation of deconstruction from the everyday.

Includes contributions from big-name scholars in literary theory, including J Hillis Miller, Nicholas Royle and Fred Botting

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