%0 Journal Article %T Poststructuralism and Deconstuction: A Mathematical History %A Vladimir Tasi£¿ %J Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy %D 2012 %I Cosmos and History Publishing Co-op. %X Explaining his love of philosophy, Slavoj i ek notes that he ¡®secretly thinks reality exists so that we can speculate about it¡¯. This article takes the view that links between mathematics and continental philosophy are part of reality, the reality of philosophy and its history, and hence require speculation. Examples from the work of Jacques Derrida and Henri Poincar¨¦ are discussed. %K Poststructuralism %K Derrida %K Philosophy of Mathematics %U University of New Brunswick