Introduction: the limit of philosophy?
'Essential, systematic, and theoretical': philosopy as resistance
'Proof, confirmation, evidence': foundationalism and antifoundationalism
'Extravagent metaphorical whimsy': Derrida and the deconstruction of metaphysics
'Neither comment, nor underscore..., nor extract': Derrida as critic
'We shall catch at that word': Harman, the pun and deconstructive criticism
'A war on totality': Lyotard and the politics of postmodernism
'The sign of an incommensurability': the differend and genres of discourse.
'I have a dream of an intellectual': 'svelteness' and the war on totality
'The text must scoff at meaning': Baudrillard and the politics of simlation and hyperreality
Conclusion: limits, beyonds and surface radicalism.
