Cornell argues that the appeal of Lacan's analysis to feminists is that it helps to explain the profound hold the gender hierarchy has over Western culture, including its theories of political transformation. A key aspect of this newness is the centrality given to the relationship between questions of ethics and sexual difference. Together they present a new ethical configuration, new in its difference from both the critical social theory of J$u$urgen Habermas and the analytic jurisprudence of Nagel and Rawls. A shared ethical rebellion links philosophers as different as Theodor Adorno, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Emmanuel Levinas. Cornell explores the ethical and juridical significance of the so-called postmodern rebellion against metaphysics. ) us to be more precise about what deconstruction actually is philosophically and hence to articulate more clearly its significance for law. She argues that renaming deconstruction "the philosophy of the limit" will allow (. In The Philosophy of the Limit Drucilla Cornell examines the relationship of deconstruction to questions of ethics, justice and legal interpretation. It is particularly within the field of law that we can see the ethical force of deconstruction, and also illuminate its concrete and practical importance.
Deconstruction both by its friends and enemies has come to be associated with a set of cliches that completely misunderstands its ethical aspiration.
0 kommentar(er)
