232 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality presents a comprehensive account and understanding of Derrida’s approach to law and justice. Through a detailed reading of Derrida’s texts, Jacques de Ville contends that it is only by way of Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence, and specifically in relation to the texts of Husserl, Levinas, Freud and Heidegger - that the reasoning... Read more
Introduction; The Origins of Law; Declarations of Independence; Madness and the Law; The Gift and law; Force of Law; Rethinking Natural Law; Conclusion
Biography
Jacques de Ville is Professor of Law at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
