Responding to a heritage
Justice, deconstruction and injunctions of Marx
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7094049 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn D’cruz (Murdoch University, corresponding author), Carolyn D'Cruz |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 159-178 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Semiotics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1035-0330 • E-ISSN: 1470-1219 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10350339609384471 |
| OpenAlex | W1983022750 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper examines the alliance that Derrida makes between his notion of justice as undeconstructible and a certain spirit of Marx's emancipatory promise. By following some of the precautions that Derrida undertakes in distinguishing the undeconstructibility of justice from the deconstructible justice should not be viewed as a contradiction in terms. I also argue that while the themes of justice, ethics, and politics can be rendered self‐present. Rather, Derrida's response to the injunctions of Marx suggests that it is precisely because justice and the emancipatory promise cannot be given over to the present that they are situated as undeconstructible. As such, taking responsibility for the heritage of Marxism involves working and sorting through the many spectres of Marx that inhabit the same injunction, where the promise remains as that yet to come
Aesthetics · Contradiction · Deconstruction (building · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2001 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |