Covering the early and later works of Derrida, this anthology is the first to bring together his most important writings in one place. Each section contains a helpful introduction that contextualizes and explains the difficult parts of his work.

Introduction Part 1: Metaphysics 1. Of Grammatology: Exergue; The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing 2. Dissemination: The Pharmakon Part 2: Language and Meaning 3. Speech and Phenomena 3: Meaning as Soliloquy 4. Margins of Philosophy: Signature Event Context Part 3: Consciousness 5. Speech and Phenomena 7. The Supplement of Origin 6. Margins of Philosophy: Form and Meaning Part 4: Epistemology 7. Introduction to Origin of Geometry 7 8. Writing and Difference 10: Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences Part 5: Ethics 9. 'Hostipitality' (Angelaki 5/3) 10. Politics of Friendship 1: Oligarchies: Naming, Enumerating, Counting Part 6: Politics 11. 'Onto-Theology of National-Humanism' (Oxford Literary Review 14) 12. 'Admiration for Nelson Mandela' (in For Nelson Mandela) Part 7: Literature and Aesthetics 13. Writing and Difference 1: Force and Understanding 14. Truth in Painting: Lemmata