NDLI: Ethics of Ambiguity and Irony: Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty

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Author	Ryu, Honglim
Copyright Year	2001
Abstract	This paper examines the relation or, more precisely, tension between postmodern deconstruction and ethics by elaborating upon the ethico-political dimensions of deconstructionism. It embarks on a critical assessment of postmodern discourse on ethics in view of its political implications by analyzing Jacques Derrida's and Richard Rorty's arguments with an assumption that their positions represent a certain “logic” in the postmodern discourse on ethics. Postmodern ethics is based on incredulity with regard to traditional metanarratives, and it defines ethics in terms of sensitivity or responsibility to “otherness” and difference. Its proponents believe that the negation of modern “metanarratives” opens a way to the Other which has been marginalized and suppressed both in thought and in social practice. Derrida and Rorty represent this position with their emphasis on the ethical nature of deconstruction and the need to elaborate new languages for ethics. Despite postmodern appeal to ethics of this sort, however, postmodern thinking shows its limits in dealing with most ethical-political matters in the contemporary world. The postmodern approach to ethics, being restricted within the perspective of the individual, does not provide any determinate framework for deciding how to adjudicate conflicting ethical claims or how to link the unconditional affirmation of emancipatory ideals, enlightened social criticism, and democratic accountability in determinate political terms. In the main, this paper contends that philosophical deconstruction and “responsibility to otherness” undermine each other in the public sphere.
Starting Page	5
Ending Page	28
Page Count	24
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01638548
Journal	Human Studies
Volume Number	24
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	1572851X
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2001-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Philosophy Modern Philosophy Philosophy of the Social Sciences Political Philosophy Sociolinguistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Philosophy

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