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The book presents an aesthetic-semiotic reading of Arendt by traversing the ensemble of her work. An attempt is made to literally enact Arendt¿s notion of "natality". Arendt is invited here to pay visitations to four figures: a student, the poetess, Stefan Zweig and Michal, Saul¿s daughter. The intellectual visitation, as a complex process of both mimesis and rejection, is revealed to be a natality, a rebirth in spirit.

The book Chronicle of Separation is an attempt to write on Derrida, to Derrida and from Derrida on the basis of a pathetic experience, which, in various ways, describes and enacts the pathetic experience of deconstruction itself. The book tackles the weight of emotions that is at the heart of deconstructive reading.