Margins of Desire

In this research the author analyzes Derrida's understanding of the way society is created out of a collection of individuals how the individuals preserve their singularity and freedom within a social system and the meaning of ethics as it comes out in his early writings. In this work the researcher used a phenomenological method of research and Cassirer's way of analyzing the symbolic forms as a framework to analyze the early writing of Derrida. Although it is not a common approach to combine Derrida's philosophy with that of Cassirer's the researcher found that Cassirer's ideas help to show Derrida's unique position.