This essay reads Derrida’s Geschlecht III: Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity in the context of philosophical and political legacies associated with motif leaping. Surveying textual ‘politics’ this figure leap work Kierkegaard, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Heidegger others, tracks its connection to question nationalism (and images place, ground gathering) explored by Derrida III, speculating on ambivalent reso...