Derrida

<p><em>Ethics in Deconstruction</em> is vital reading for anyone interested in Derrida and the ethical implications of deconstruction broadly defined. It offers a comprehensive set of essays on the ethics of deconstruction and deconstruction as an ethical enterprise. Derrida is the main focus but essays also look at Sextus Empiricus Kierkegaard Heidegger Arendt Lévinas Lyotard Deleuze and others. This volume broadly defines ethics to include law justice politics religion and practical reason. The essays explore topics including biopolitics hospitality speech and language consciousness and affection animality democracy sovereignty nationality and nationalism Enlightenment poetics responsibility economics decision theory promises the institution of ethics alterity and otherness. An editor’s introduction provides a unifying oversight of the multiplicity of topics and an editor’s afterthought takes the discussion forward with regard to the status of moral law. This volume's contents are distinctive in their wide-ranging coverage of deconstruction including its boundaries and its others. The reader’s assumptions about deconstruction ethics and their contexts will be challenged and renewed. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the philosophy of Derrida and the ethical possibilities of deconstruction in many forms across themes and disciplines. It was originally published as a special issue of <em>Angelaki</em>.</p>