This article analyzes the complex relation of phenomenology and literature in the work of Husserl and Derrida. In the first part, I show that the limited ideality of the literary object necessarily situates it in a derivative region of phenomenology. In the second part, however, I problematize the regional status of literature by elaborating a brief but important footnote in which Husserl broadens the concept of literature to embrace all cultural products whatsoever. Yet, because even this broadened concept of literature ultimately remains secondary for the phenomenologist, it only redoubles and ratifies the submission of literature to the more ideal objectivities of mathematical disciplines like geometry. The third part, finally, mobilizes Derrida’s notion of “dissemination,” prepared in and unintelligible apart from his early engagement with Husserlian phenomenology, in order to broach a notion of literature that the phenomenologist can neither circumscribe nor describe.

本文分析了胡塞尔和德里达工作中现象学与文学之间的复杂关系。在第一部分中，我表明文学对象的有限理想化必然将其置于现象学的派生区域中。然而，在第二部分中，我通过阐述一个简短但重要的脚注来质疑文学的区域地位，在该脚注中，胡塞尔将文学的概念扩展到涵盖所有文化产物。但是，因为即使这种扩展的文学概念最终对于现象学家仍然是次要的，所以它只会加倍并认可文学作品对诸如几何学之类的数学学科的更为理想的客观性。最后，第三部分动员了德里达的“传播，