Chapter One--Introduction: The question of writing Chapter Two: Being proper 1 Presence: the primordial scene i The sway of presence ii Reification and contamination iii Dike : the order prior to order 2 The face and the mask 3 Heideggerian hope Chapter Three: Representation and its limits 1 The gaze i Gazing visibility: gods and Being ii Gazing humanly iii The origin of sight iv The hierarchy of gazes: from divine to animal v The gaze as encounter and conquest 2 Representation and limitation i Descartes'' cogito a. That which is represented b. That which represents c. Being as representedness ii Protagoras'' metron iii Heidegger''s mindfulness 3 Limited and unlimited Being Chapter Four: The dangers of writing 1 Logocentrism and metaphysics i The debasement of writing ii Voice and origin 2 Soul writing: Rousseau and Plato 3 The ontology of writing Chapter Five: Presence under erasure 1 The ethics of contamination 2 From arche-writing to arche-castration Chapter Six: The politics of writing 1 Writing and the polis of discourse 2 Writing and the discourse of the polis 3 Keeping the outside outside 4 Political dwelling Chapter Seven: Being written 1 Being''s voiceless voice 2 The handling hand 3 The pointing word 4 Hand/machine writing 5 Gaze-writing 6 What is called writing? 7 Being gifted Chapter Eight: Writing and the politics of race 1 Dispirited intelligence 2 The hot flame of spirit i The spirited and the spiritual ii Spirit and race 3 Inside: the spirit-restoring race 4 Outside: the writing animal 5 From logocentrism to Nazism Chapter Nine: Derrida''s avoidance 1 The ghost of Geist 2 Spirit on the double 3 Under the Black Forest trees Chapter Ten--Conclusion: The ghost of metaphysics.