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Derrida's Ethical Turn And America: Looking Back From The Crossroads Of Global Terrorism And The Enlightenment, Michel Rosenfeld
Derrida's Ethical Turn And America: Looking Back From The Crossroads Of Global Terrorism And The Enlightenment, Michel Rosenfeld
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Derrida has denied that he has taken an ethical turn in the 80's and 90's. This article argues, however, that Derrida's deconstruction of the ethical implications of major moral, social or political issues, such as law and justice, friendship, hospitality, forgiveness, the death penalty and most recently global terrorism, does result in an ethical turn. This turn leads Derrida to articulate an ethics of difference which focuses on diversity and the other, and America as compared to Europe stands for greater diversity and looms as Derrida's and Europe's "other." In contrast to Derrida's America is Habermas's Europe, his Kantian ethics …
Authority: An Hommage To Jacques Derrida And Mary Quaintance, Arthur J. Jacobson
Authority: An Hommage To Jacques Derrida And Mary Quaintance, Arthur J. Jacobson
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This essay, in a symposium celebrating the publication 25 years ago of Jacques Derrida's "Force of Law: The 'Mystical Foundation of Authority,'" traces the themes of that work through the struggle between Derrida and his translator, Mary Quaintance, for authority over the translation. In the end, neither wins the struggle: Authorship of the translation - authority - must be ceded to a third. Derrida reacts to this loss of authority by signing the translation, taking responsibility for the translation even when it is the product of forces beyond his control and of decisions he only imperfectly understands. He thus enacts …
Introduction: Un Cygne Noir, Peter Goodrich