1st Edition

Derrida and Law Justice and the Violence of Legality

Edited By Peter Goodrich, Anselm Haverkamp, Avital Ronell Copyright 2027
340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars from across the spectrum of disciplines, generations, and geopolitical divides to revisit Jacques Derrida’s account of law, violence and justice. Deconstruction is variously a philosophy of aporia, a method of patience, a practice of paradoxes, an ontography of uncertainty, a hermeneutics of escalation that sought not only to... Read more

Introduction: Force v Law
Peter Goodrich

Part One: Law

1. Doing Justice to Deconstruction

Isabelle Alfandry

2. In the Waiting Room of Injustice: Pascal, Kafka, Derrida

Robert Young

3. Is Deconstruction Justice?

Peter Goodrich

4. Nasorum vis: Hate Inside and Outside Law

            Philip Mitsis

5. Justice without Force

Hent de Vries

6. Derrida’s Wake: Radical Patience between Justice and Forgiveness

            Anselm Haverkamp

 

Part Two: Force

 

7. The Divine Tantrum: On Law and Anger

            Avital Ronell

8. Sacrifices: On a Footnote in ‘Critique of Violence

Erica Weitzman

9. De-expiation and the Bloodless Strike: On the Force of the Incalculable

Mangalika de Silva

10. The Suicide of the Critique of Violence

            Chris Power

11. What does a Weak Language Say About Law?

            Juntao Lin

12. Aprés la loi: Kafka, Benjamin, Derrida

Dominik Zechner (Rutgers)

13. Afterword: Derrida and Benjamin

            Avital Ronell

Biography

Peter Goodrich is Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, New York, and Visiting Professor in Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. An ardent advocate of the argute yet habile silent p, as in psithurism, ptomaine, cupboard and rhubarb, he writes on forensic rhetoric, visual advocacy, law and literature, juristic semiotics.

Anselm Haverkamp, Emeritus Professor of English at NYU, is Professor of Philosophy at LMU Munich. As director of the NYU Poetics and Theory Program he for years organized and taught the “Literature and Philosophy” seminars with Jacques Derrida (Fall term) and Stanley Cavell (Spring term).

Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University. She has taught at UC-Berkeley, Germany, France, Princeton, The European Graduate School (currently) and has published many works inflected by deconstruction and hermeneutics.