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- Hauntology abstract "Hauntology (a portmanteau of haunting and ontology) refers to the state of temporal, historical, and ontological disjunction in which the ostensible immediacy of presence is replaced by \"the figure of the ghost as that which is neither present, nor absent, neither dead nor alive.\" The term was coined by philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Spectres of Marx.The concept of hauntology is closely related to Derrida's deconstruction of Western philosophy's logocentrism, which results in the fundamental deconstructive claim that being does not entail presence. Asserting that there is no temporal point of pure origin but only an \"always-already absent present,\" deconstruction identifies \"haunting [as] the state proper to being as such.\" The word functions as a deliberate near-homophone to \"ontology\" in Derrida's native French.".