Just a quick reply to KJM's question regarding deconstruction as an ethic.
It would not be proper to call it a 'system of morality', but perhaps the
idea of an 'ethical sensisbility' would be better (Foucault, too, offered
an ethical sensibility formed through care of the self against some sort of
moral system of rules and regulations). Anyway, it would involve a sensibility
that both drives the deconstructionist reading of 'texts' (and social,
political and ethical situations can also be seen as 'texts' to be
deconstructed) and which is affirmed through deconstruction.
Simon Critchley has an excellent book that deals with these issues: THE
ETHICS OF DECONSTRUCTION: DERRIDA AND LEVINAS.
Nathan
widder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
It would not be proper to call it a 'system of morality', but perhaps the
idea of an 'ethical sensisbility' would be better (Foucault, too, offered
an ethical sensibility formed through care of the self against some sort of
moral system of rules and regulations). Anyway, it would involve a sensibility
that both drives the deconstructionist reading of 'texts' (and social,
political and ethical situations can also be seen as 'texts' to be
deconstructed) and which is affirmed through deconstruction.
Simon Critchley has an excellent book that deals with these issues: THE
ETHICS OF DECONSTRUCTION: DERRIDA AND LEVINAS.
Nathan
widder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx