Acknowledgments
1.The Phantom Project Returning: The Passing (On) of the Still Incomplete Project of Modernity
Introduction
Ruptures and Specters
Exorcisms Without End
The (Phantom) Project Still Incomplete
2. Spectral Circumventions (of the Specter): Poststructuralism, Derrida, and the Project Renewed
Poststructuralism and/as Postmodernism
Private Irony All the Way Down?
The Force of Derrida’s Indecision
3. Writing of the Ghost (Again): The Failure of Postmodern
Metafiction and the Narrative of Renewalism
Neither Logocentric nor Logo Centric
From an Ethics of Perversity to an Ethics of Indecision
Metafiction’s Failure and the Rise of Neo-Realism
The Project of Renewalism
A Conclusion . . . Perhaps
Notes
Works Cited
Index