At important points of his career, and initially to great surprise, Derrida identified deconstruction with both justice and democracy. As well, much of Derrida’s later work is engaged with questions of borders, friendship, nationality, and cosmopolitanism. These questions are urgent for any political theory concerned with conceiving justice in postmodernity, founding collectivity in notions of difference, forging a relation between ethics and politics, and thinking about (or against) the nation without nationalism. What is the fate of these questions? How does Derrida’s work change the terrain of political theorizing? What are the possibilities and limitations of that changed terrain?
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