This book, written out of Derrida's long-standing friendship with Jean-Luc Nancy, examines the central place accorded to the sense of touch in the Western philosophical tradition. Foreword ix Translator's Preface xi When our eyes touch... 1(10) Signing a Question from Aristotle PART I: THIS IS-OF THE OTHER § 1 Psyche 11(9) 'Around her, with such exact and cruel knowledge § 2 Spacings 20(16) The Incommensurable, Syncope, and Words Beginning with 'ex-' § 3 This Is My Body 36(30) Points Already: Counterpoint, Mourning Psyche, and the Hand of... § 4 The Untouchable, or the Vow of Abstinence 66(26) The Exorbitant, 1?Tact beyond the possible'?Stroking, Striking, Thinking, Weighing: Mourning Eros and the Other Hand of... § 5 Tender 92(19) This Is My Heart, the heart of another § 6 Nothing to Do in Sight: There's no 'the' sense of touch 111(24) Haptics, 'techne,' or Body Ecotechnics PART II: EXEMPLARY STORIES OF THE FLESH § 7 Tangent I 135(24) Hand of Man, Hand of God § 8 Tangent II 159(24) For example, my hand?The hand itself?For example, the finger-For example, I feel my heart § 9 Tangent III 183(33) The Exorbitant, 2, Crystallization of the impossible: Flesh, and, again, For example, my hand § 10 Tangent IV 216(28) Tangency and Contingency, 1: The question of technics and the aporias of Flesh,(contact, at bottom) § 11 Tangent V 244(21) Tangency and Contingency, 2: The 'merciful hand of the Father,' with which he thus touches us, is the Son....the Word that is the touch that touches the Soul' (toque de la Divinidad...e1 toque que toca al alma) PART III: PUNCTUATIONS: AND YOU. § 12 To self-touch you 265(16) Touching?Language and the Heart § 13 And to you. The Incalculable 281(19) Exactitude, Punctuality, Punctuation Salve 300(13) Untimely Postscript, for Want of a Final Retouch ????epsilon Salut to you, salut to the blind we become 313(4) Jean-Luc Nancy Notes 317(58) Index of Names 375