This book collects ten years of Peggy Kamuf s writing on the work and friendship of Jacques Derrida The majority of the chapters discuss a key aspect of Derrida s thought either from a single work or across several texts Kamuf engages with a broad array of his work from the 1960s to the posthumous publication of his teaching seminars She also considers press interviews and the collaboration on a film These close readings are punctuated by brief recollections from their long friendship The chapters trace a reflection that undergoes the sudden event of Derrida s death Rather than take this interruption as its premise however the book sets out from Derrida s own teaching that mourning begins with friendship and not just at the death of the friend Thus the strict chronology of the chapters from 2000 to 2010 highlights a general illusion of before and after that comes undone over the course of the sequence