This new collection of essays gathers together a collection of scholars to consider what happens when deconstruction reads politics. It engages with recent texts by Jacques Derrida and others on the political, as well as considering the long, often unacknowledged, encounter between deconstruction and politics. The collection intervenes in current debates in the humanities around ethics, politics and history, staking a claim for the efficacy of a deconstructive reading strategy in the understanding of the political. It does not merely wish to apply deconstruction to the reading of political events but rather seeks to offer a radical re-reading of the political which would deconstruct the very assumptions upon which this category has been based. Conversely, deconstruction and reading are not left untouched by their encounter with the political. Deconstruction Reading Politics puts down a marker for a mature deconstruction in which reading is an ethical and political engagement with the textuality of the social.