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Frances Ferguson teaches in the Department of English at the University of Chicago.  She is the author of Wordsworth: Language as Counter-Spirit (1977), Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation (1992) and Pornography, The Theory (2005).  She is a member of the Editorial Board of Critical Inquiry.  Her most recent article for the journal first appeared in a special issue devoted to the late work of Jacques Derrida; we reprint it below.

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Frances Ferguson, "Jacques Derrida and the Critique of the Geometrical Mode: The Line and the Point"

 

 

Other articles by Frances Ferguson (JSTOR subscription required):

 

Pornography: The Theory

 

Emma, or Happiness (or Sex Work)

 

Getting Past Yes to Number One

 

Why Is This Man So Angry? A Reply to Lauren Glass