ABSTRACT
Moving from deconstructive premises, I argue that the Talmud is an encrypted system of ‘writing’—whose process culminates with the end of metaphysics, and therefore with the death of the author. This chapter argues that the end of metaphysics has also produced the end of traditional, cultural ‘lineage’—both in proper and metaphorical terms. Accordingly, I conclude by assuming that there is no longer authoritative writing but only a mutilated one—a ‘circumwriting.’
