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Ethics in Deconstruction is vital reading for any interested in Derrida and the ethical implications of deconstruction broadly defined. It offers a comprehensive set of essays on the ethics of deconstruction and deconstruction as an ethical enterprise.
List of contents
Foreword Introduction
1. Fidelity to Life ~ Hospitable Biopolitics
2. Jacques Derrida's Bio-thanato-politics
3. The exception Derrida - The "secret elect" of the animals: The onto-anthropo-theological vein in question
4. Deconstruction's Animal Promise: From Textual pragmatics to a Categorical Imperative
5. Derrida's "Very Idea of Democracy"
6. Hyper-Sovereignty and Community: Derrida's Reading of Heidegger in The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II
7. Language by Birth and Nationality by Death: Rethinking Nationalism with Heidegger and Derrida
8. Derrida and Parle-ment (Parliament)
9. Inheritance Indifferent to Legitimacy: A Kind of Ethical and Political First Principle
10. Today's Enlightenment: Jacques Derrida on Europe in the Global Age
11. "What is Proper to a Culture": Identification and Ethics in Jacques Derrida & Amartya Sen
12. The Notion of Responsibility and the Poetic Revolution in Derrida's Thought
13. Philosophical Responsibility: Derrida's Historical and Ethical Task
14. Derrida's Counter-Institution and Its Ethics of Promise and Responsibility
15. How to Make Impossible Decisions: Jacques Derrida and Ruth Chang on the Ethics of Rational Choice
16. Derrida and the Time of Decision
17. Auto-affection and Ethics: A Derridean Response to Levinas
18. Fugitive Philosophy: Derrida and Lyotard at the Limits of the Law
19. Logics of Alterity in Derrida's and Deleuze's Philosophies of Justice
20. An Ethics Worthy of the Name: Of God and Ghosts in Derridean Ethics
21. Quoting the Other. Toward a "Minor" Ethic of Reading
22. Immanent Ethics and Deconstruction
23. Deconstructions as Ethics Without Result: On Derridean Resultlessness, Urgency and Attunement in Contrast to Arendt, Sextus and Kierkegaard
After thought - Derrida Escaping the Deserts of Moral Law: Poetics, Sacrifice, Judaism, and the Limits of Decisionism
About the author
Barry Stocker teaches philosophy at Böaziçi University in Istanbul. He has degrees from the University of Warwick and the University of Sussex. His publications include the monographs
Derrida on Deconstruction,
Kierkegaard on Politics, and
Philosophy of the Novel. Other interests include Montaigne, Vico, Nietzsche, and Foucault.
