D. Carroll: “Remains” of Algeria: Justice, Hospitality, Politics

David Carroll’s essay ““Remains” of Algeria: Justice, Hospitality, Politics” examines the intersection between Derrida’s Algerian-Jewish upbringing and his conceptions of ethics, justice, and hospitality. Carroll posits that the uniqueness of Derrida’s experience as a French Jew in Algeria located him uncomfortably between two identities: Derrida was neither fully Arab Algerian nor French colonialist; he was [...]

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E. Popke: ‘Postructuralist Ethics: Subjectivity, Responsibility, Community’

E. Jeffrey Popke advocates that poststructuralist ethics needs to be taken more seriously in human geography. He believes that poststructuralist theory “offers the potential to break down existing categories of power and knowledge, and thereby to foster alternative narratives, which have the [...]

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Derrida: critic of Levinas?

Summary post by David Tomlinson : An example of Derridian dogmatism par excellence (which I think would be enough to make Derrida cringe, with Hägglund’s adherence to what he paradoxically describes as ‘deconstructive logic’), “The Necessity of Discrimination” aims to break apart Derrida and Levinas entirely by pointing to the violence Derrida understands as constitutive [...]

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Derrida : clotural readings

Summary post by Anderson Mackenzie : This essay is a chapter taken from Critchley’s book, The Ethics of Deconstruction. The major project for the book as a whole is to illustrate Critchley’s contention that deconstruction, as a method of reading philosophy, necessarily involves an ethical demand. In an earlier chapter of the book Critchley makes [...]

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