Derrida, Responsibility and Politics

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In this examination of the debates regarding the ethico-political significance of deconstruction, the author suggests that there is a line of questioning distinctive of deconstruction and that this line of questioning is directed at the foundations of legal, moral, and political authority, and at the questioning form itself. He offers an overview of several prominent appraisals of deconstruction's ethico- political implications and considers the risk involved with evaluating Derrida's interrogation of the authority of philosophical discourse in terms of significance. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.