Finite Infinity: Reading Gasché Reading Derrida Reading Hegel … “and so on without an end”

Francesco Vitale is associate professor of esthetics at the University of Salerno, Italy. His academic interests have focused on Derrida’s work since his PhD dissertation in philosophy on Derrida’s relation to Hegel (University Federico II of Napoli, Italy). He is the author of many essays on Derrida, published in Italian, English, French, and Japanese. In recent years, he has been working on a research project on Derrida and the life sciences entitled Biodeconstruction (forthcoming from SUNY Press in 2018). His main publications devoted to Jacques Derrida are Mitografie. Jacques Derrida e la scrittura dello spazio (Milano, 2012) and Spettrografie. Jacques Derrida tra singolarità e scrittura (Genova, 2008).