Logics of Alterity in Derrida's and Deleuze's Philosophies of Justice

Shores C. M.

ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES, vol.29, no.1-2, pp.225-236, 2024 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 29 Issue: 1-2
  • Publication Date: 2024
  • Doi Number: 10.1080/0969725x.2024.2322289
  • Journal Name: ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES
  • Journal Indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Periodicals Index Online, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Philosopher's Index, Political Science Complete, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  • Page Numbers: pp.225-236
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Jacques Derrida's and Gilles Deleuze's philosophies of justice share many similar features. For both, justice involves an overturning of law by extralegal means, made possible by an "undecidability" in the judgment-making process. To distinguish their conceptions of justice, we examine their implicit modes of non-classical reasoning with regard to "otherness," building from Routley and Routley and Daniel Smith, to conclude that Derrida's thinking on justice is at least paracomplete (or analetheic) while Deleuze's is just paraconsistent (or dialetheic).