1. The research on which this article is based was made possible by a grant from theDutch Organization for Scientific Research(NWO).
2. G.W.F. Hegel,Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik I(Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1970), eds. E. Moldenhauer and K.M. Michel, 315–16/Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art I, translated by T.M. Knox (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975), 243–44 (translation slightly modified).
3. J. Derrida,Spectres de Marx(Paris: Galilée, 1993), 211/Specters of Marx, translated by P. Kamuf (New York: Routledge, 1994), 132. Hereafter I will refer to this as SM, followed by the page numbers of the French and English editions respectively.
4. J. Derrida, ‘Différence’,Marges de la philosophie(Paris: Editions de minuit, 1972), 15/‘Différence’,Margins of Philosophy, translated by A. Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 14.
5. J. Derrida,Positions(Paris: Editions de minuit. 1972), 54/Positions, translated by A. Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1981). 40.