Paola Marrati considers the philosophical sources of Derrida's thought through his reading of both Husserl and Heidegger. Notions such as the contamination of the empirical and the transcendental, dissemination and writing, are explained as a guiding thread that runs through Derrida's early and later works.

@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgements ii Translator's Note ii Introduction ii @to1:Part One: Derrida, Reader of Husserl @toc2:1.1. Eidos and Time 000 @toc3:1. The Problem of Genesis: Time and Truth 000 2. Being has Always Already Begun: Phenomenological, Ontological and Empirical Geneses 000 3. Transcendental Teleology and its Empirical Crisis: the Eidos of Europe 000 @toc2:1.2. The Absolute is Passage 000 @toc3:1. Reactivating the Origin: The Return Inquiry 000 2. Truth Lives Only By Surviving 000 3. Writing and the Transcendental Sense of Death 000 4. The Crisis of History: Fact, Eidos and Fault 000 @toc2:1.3. Forgetting and Memory (Of Ideality) 000 @toc3:1. Difference Dwells in Language Alone 000 2. Memory and Forgetting of Ideality 000 3. Epoch? and Solitary Mental Discourse 000 4. Originary Intuition and Signification 000 5. Duration of the Augenblick: The World in Time 000 6. Widersinnigkeit and Sinnlosigkeit: Ideality of Bedeutung and Non-Intuition 000 @toc1:Part Two: Derrida Before Heidegger @toc2:2.1. Being is Not Gathered 000 @toc3:1. On the Epoch of Representation 000 2. Sendings [Des envois] 000 3. The Paradox of the Origin in Heidegger 000 @toc2:2.2. Whence the Future? 000 @toc3:1. Originary Temporality and Originary Historicality 000 2. Genesis and Origin of Time 000 @toc2:2.3. Dasein's Life 000 @toc3:1. Dasein Does Not Pass Away 000 2. Is My Death Possible? 000 @toc2:Conclusions @toc4:Notes 000 Works Cited 000