Table of Contents Acknowledgements4 Introduction Hoc nihil ad rem 6 Chapter I: The Event of the Thing: 'Ereignis in Abyss' 13 I.1. Protocols of the thing: That the event will have been possible 14 I.1.1It's virtually happening…15 I.1.2Double affirmative, double perhaps24 I.2. In-to the things themselves! 33 I.2.1'What' 'is' 'inside' 'the' 'thing'? 33 I.2.2The event of expropriation, or how the thing 'spirits away'41 I.3. The literary and the poetic: A name without the thing and the things without a name 50 Chapter II: 'This Thing Regards Us': The Promise of 'Reified' Intentionality 60 II.1. The real of intentionality and the intentionality of the real 61 II.1.1The real of intentionality: Noema and hyle 61 II.1.2The intentionality of the real: Res nostra agitur 67 II.2. The thing of the senses 78 II.2.1Not-hearing-oneself-speak78 II.2.2The imperative for thinking the hand86 II.3. Being read: Under the eye of the text 93 Chapter III: Deconstruction of Fetishism: The Love and the Work of the Thing 101 III.1. For the love of the thing: Derrida's psychoanalysis 102 III.1.1Who/what is analyzed in psychoanalysis?103 III.1.2Psychoanalysis and resistance–of the (non-idealized) mother111 III.1.3How to love the thing, or what does psychoanalysis resist?122 III.2.The thing at work: On commodity fetishism, or the “phenomenology of value”130 III.2.1The enframing (of) value130 III.2.2Money, credit, and other 'counterfeit things'140 III.2.3Becoming-thing of the thing, becoming-world of the world148 Chapter IV: On the Thing that Deconstructs Aesthetics 154 IV.1. Style, the signature of the thing 155 IV.1.1The point of style155 IV.1.2Spongy stones, stony sponges, and the countersignature of the thing 160 IV.1.3Painting with an auto-affective eye (“double vision”)165 IV.2. Subjectile, the 'epoch' of the thing 172 IV.2.1Reductio ad rerum: In the memory of…172 IV.2.2Thrown together: The artist and the thing178 IV.2.3Instead of arriving: 'The bottom without bottom of things'186 IV.3. Parergon, the thing alongside the work 192 Conclusion: Post-Deconstructive Realism: Of What Remains 199 Abbreviation Key 209 Notes 213

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‘The Event of the Thing is a rigorous, innovative exposition of Derrida’s concept of the thing, which permeates his work. With reference to Derrida’s published and unpublished writings, Michael Marder accomplishes a thoughtful and exciting consideration of what is a major thread in Derrida’s corpus. Marder’s excellent scholarship is of singular importance.’

'The Event of the Thing is a rigorous, innovative exposition of Derrida's concept of the thing, which permeates his work. With reference to Derrida's published and unpublished writings, Michael Marder accomplishes a thoughtful and exciting consideration of what is a major thread in Derrida's corpus. Marder's excellent scholarship is of singular importance.' -- John Leavey, Department of English, University of Florida 'The Event of the Thing is an original and important work that demonstrates for the first time how Derrida radically rethinks the tradition of the thing in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics.' -- Sean Gaston, Department of English, Brunel University 'Michael Marder's book is an example of what philosophy should be in the twenty-first century. Similar to Tugendhat's analysis of the Heideggerian concept of truth, Rorty's endorsement of Dewey's politics, or Vattimo's interpretation of the Nietzschean Overman, Marder has produced a singular reading of Derrida's notion of the "thing" and paved the way towards a highly original post-deconstructive realism.' -- Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor, University of Barcelona