
Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 14. January 1993
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-415-90303-5 (ISBN)
Description
Justice, so the story goes, demands reconstruction, not deconstruction. Yet even its critics recognize that deconstruction is, in some way, aligned with the marginalized. Within literary studies we hear the same cry: deconstruction has brought in its wake the clamour for the recognition of many voices outside the traditional. While bringing the margin to the centre is undoubtedly a result of deconstruction in political philosophy and literary criticism, deconstruction faces, and acknowledges that it faces, a philosophical challenge of its own. Jacques Derrida's more liberal critics have focused on just this problem. They have insisted that even if one can appreciate deconstruction's alliance with the underdog, deconstruction cannot provide an ethical basis for this alliance, let alone argue the necessity of such an alliance. The purpose of this volume is to rethink the questions posed by Derrida.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
830 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-90303-5 (9780415903035)
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all at the Cardozo School of Law, New York, USA