1st Edition

Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice

    420 Pages
    by Routledge

    420 Pages
    by Routledge

    The purpose of this volume is to rethink the questions posed by Derrida's writings and his unique philosophical positioning, without reference to the catch phrases that have supposedly summed up deconstruction.

    Part One Law, Violence and Justice; Chapter 1 Force of Law: The “Mystical Foundation of Authority”, Jacques Derrida; Chapter 2 The Philosophy of the Limit: Systems Theory and Feminist Legal Reform, Drucilla Cornell; Part Two Deconstruction and Legal Interpretation; Chapter 3 The Idolatry of Rules: Writing Law According to Moses, With Reference to Other Jurisprudences, Arthur J. Jacobson; Chapter 4 Deconstruction and Legal Interpretation: Conflict, Indeterminacy and the Temptations of the New Legal Formalism, Michel Rosenfeld; Chapter 5 Judgment After the Fall, Barbara Herrnstein Smith; Chapter 6 In the Name of the Law, Samuel Weber; Chapter 7 Forms, Charles M. Yablon; Part Three Comparative Perspectives on Justice, Law and Politics; Chapter 8 On the Margins of Microeconomics, David Gray Carlson; Chapter 9 Hermeneutics and the Rule of Law, Fred Dallmayr; Chapter 10 Laying Down the Law in Literature: The Example of Kleist, J Hillis Miller; Chapter 11 Statistical Stigmata, Henry Louis Gates; Chapter 12 Rights, Modernity, Democracy, Agnes Heller; Chapter 13 Algorithmic Justice, Alan Wolfe; Chapter 14 Conditions of Evil, Reiner Schürmann, Ian Janssen;

    Biography

    Drucilla Cornell, Michel Rosenfeld, David Gray Carlson