Justice, Interpretation, and Violence
A Rejoinder to Corson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6351680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John P Mccormick (0000-0001-7305-186X, Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 876-881 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0090591701029006010 |
| OpenAlex | W2069551017 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
I thank Ben Corson for his response to my essay on Force of Law.2 His comments are gentle, serious, constructive, and certainly exhibit greater expertise in matters-Derrida than I possess. Much more than merely supplemental, Corson's criticisms raise issues that go to the heart of Derrida's essay and my own reading of it. I take the following to be Corson's main point: I read Denrida to be offering mystical as an eventual or ultimate alternative to mythic in a way that forecloses the very possibility of deconstruction and justice as Derridean concerns. My narrow reading purportedly overlooks the fact that deconstruction and justice require some aspects of the kind of force associated with mythic and in fact would need to eschew certain characteristics associated with mystical violence. I believe that Corson is more or less correct at a certain hermeneutic level: both Dernida's essay and my interpretation of it do indeed point in this direction, one that hypostatizes mythical and mystical violence. Ironically, this exaggerated antinomy becomes so extreme in my overdetermined account of Force of Law that I am forced to conflate the two forms of in my effort to raise mystical to a status that approximates a quasi-Kantian regulative ideal. But while Corson acknowledges the significance of Derrida's gestures that eventually break down the strict dichotomy between mythical and mystical violence, both within and without the Force of Law essay, he seems somewhat less attuned to my own indications or intimations along these same lines. For instance, I would redirect Ben and the readers to the crucial place in Derrida's essay where I suggested that he commits a kind of violence
Aesthetics · Antinomy · Art · Constructive · Deconstruction (building · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Mysticism · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Subversion · Theology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2010 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |