Deconstruction of The Law In Derrida: Thinking About Right Owner Subject and Responsible Unique
Journal Title: ViraVerita: Peer-reviewed E-Journal of Interdisciplinary Encounters - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 0
Abstract
The main issue of this article is to question the possibility of the idea of justice in the context of Derridean ethics and responsibility by subjecting the basis of the law and rights to the deconstruction. A protest against the concept of human rights seems not possible because human rights are perceived to be legitimate in itself; but human rights discourse leads to a metaphysical violence on the one hand as it grounds on the definition of the sovereign subject . In this context, the notion of rights does not concern for being just, as a form of calculative and rational logic, since singularities are equated in a transcendent fixedness in order to recognize the individual. The law is not embodiement of an idea of justice in-itself and transcendental, rather it constructs itself as a performative act from the abyys. Law is not a manifestation of the idea of justice, but a systematic application of some metaphysical principles and pre-determinations. In this case, an ethico-political thinking’s impulse should be getting closer to an idea of justice which looks for the care, by paying attention to the metaphysical violence caused by the discourse of right. In this context, the idea of an endless responsibility conceptualized by Derrida as a justice demand from the other can be an ethical starting point for questioning the crisis of living together. The main purpose of this essay is to examine the new philosophy of responsibility as the 'yes' answer to the demand of justice which is derived from other’s uniqueness; against Western philosophy, where responsibility is regarded as a public account and bearing of action.
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Elifsu TANYERİ
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