Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Adelaide Russo -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Of Friendship with Derrida -- Michel Deguy -- Abbreviations -- Translator’s Note -- Polemical Introduction -- Christopher Elson and Garry Sherbert -- Chapter 1 -- The Poetics of Friendship -- Christopher Elson and Garry Sherbert -- Chapter 2 -- "The Sacred Without the Sacred": Salut and the Metonymy of Poetic Nomination -- Christopher Elson and Garry Sherbert -- Chapter 3 -- Of Contemporaneity: A Talk for Jacques Derrida -- Michel Deguy -- Chapter 4 -- The Poet’s Duty: Michel Deguy’s Deconstructive Poethics -- Christopher Elson -- Chapter 5 -- How to Name -- Jacques Derrida -- Chapter 6 -- Calling Names: Derrida, Deguy, and Spectropoetics -- Garry Sherbert -- Chapter 7 -- "A Religion of the Event": Salut, Ethics, and Quasi-Atheistic Transcendence -- Christopher Elson and Garry Sherbert -- Conclusion -- Christopher Elson and Garry Sherbert -- Appendix of Additional Texts by Michel Deguy -- Bibliography -- Index.