Levinas on law: A Derridean reading of Manderson’s Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law

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dc.contributor.authorDe Ville, Jacques
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-18T08:54:15Z
dc.date.available2012-07-18T08:54:15Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractIn this article, Desmond Manderson’s book, Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law (2006) is analysed specifically with reference to the accuracy with which it translates Derrida’s thinking into law. Manderson, in a number of instances, invokes Derrida’s thinking as a ‘corrective’ to that of Levinas. The author shows that this invocation by Manderson of Derrida’s texts is selective and does not take account of Derrida’s broader ‘philosophical’ approach. The author points to the differences between, but also the correspondence in the thinking of Levinas and Derrida. He contends that being true to Derrida’s thinking requires that proximity be viewed not as simply making law responsive as proposed by Manderson, but as having a paradoxical structure. The latter would give expression to the distinction that Derrida draws between the conditional and the unconditional. Only if proximity is viewed in this manner will judges be faced with a true responsibility in deciding negligence cases; only then will justice stand a chance.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDe Ville, J. 2007. Levinas on law: A Derridean reading of Manderson’s Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law. Griffith Law Review 16 (1): 225-246en_US
dc.identifier.issn1038-3441
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/381
dc.language.isoenen_US
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dc.publisherGriffith University, Griffith Law School, Socio-Legal Research Centreen_US
dc.rightsCopyright Griffith University. This file may be freely used provided that the source is acknowledged. No commercial distribution of this text is permitted.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectLevinas, Emmanuelen_US
dc.subjectDerrida, Jacquesen_US
dc.subjectDeconstructionen_US
dc.subjectJusticeen_US
dc.subjectResposibilityen_US
dc.subjectThe otheren_US
dc.titleLevinas on law: A Derridean reading of Manderson’s Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Lawen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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