ABSTRACT

To begin with that beginning we call a title, I will point out that my title uses an ambiguous plural. By grammar alone and without much context, one cannot decide whether to read the plural ‘ghosts’ as the two ghosts of critique and deconstruction, each having or being its own ghost, or whether to read a plural plurality: both critique and deconstruction having or being more than one ghost and even more than one kind of ghost. Both of these plurals are possible, which means that there is yet another kind of plurality to be reckoned with in the title’s phrasing: a plurality of kinds of pluralization other than the pluralization of separable, identifiable ones. There would be a possible plurality of not just the more than one but also a plurality of modes of plurality: the other than one.