ABSTRACT
As this ludicrously ambitious title indicates, I shall be offering no more than a sketch for an argument which I hope may turn out to be worth pursuing more carefully; an argument which attempts to identify an area of ambiguity in certain kinds of theological reception of Derridean themes, and to raise, yet again, the overworked spectre of Hegel in order to question and explore this ambiguity. My attention will be directed not so much to the primary texts of deconstruction as to certain discussions of their problematic by writers in theology and religious studies; but my final aim is to raise an issue for some of the rhetoric of postmodern performance itself.
