Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Of the Line: Temporality, Ethical Repetition, and Subject in Being and Time -- Beyond Being: Event, Time and Subject in Levinas -- Memory, Modernity, Repetition: Walter Benjamin’s Ethico-Political History -- Postcolonial Irony: Time, Subject, and History in the Critical Writings of Wilson Harris -- Fecundity of the Ethical: Deconstruction, History and the Subaltern in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.

In Post-Deconstructive Subjectivity and History , Aniruddha Chowdhury argues that deconstruction is not only not a dissolution of subject, as it is often opined, but an affirmation of the singular (ethical) subject and singular history, singularity conceived as alterity, difference and non-identity. Part of the emphasis of the singular history is to conceive the historical relation as figural and as one of repletion with difference. One of the distinctive aspects of the book is that it not only focuses on the tradition of phenomenology, but also extends deconstruction to critical theory, and postcolonial theory. Through his intimate reading of the canonical texts of the Continental philosophical tradition (phenomenology and critical theory), and postcolonial thought Chowdhury illuminates pertinent issues in Continental thought, and postcolonial theory.