Deconstruction Strategy and the Possibility of Justice Realization

Document Type : The Quarterly Jornal

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1 Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran

2 MS in Sociology, Faculty of University of Tehran

Abstract

Although deconstruction has often been accused of neutrality and indifferent to moral values, in this paper, which is a case study of the Derrida’s viewpoint, we will see how he interprets deconstruction as a positive and normative strategy for the realization of justice. He considers government authority to be deconstructable by virtue of its dual and contradictory character, but, on the other hand, he believes that justice and universal moral values are not deconstructable. This same reality can lead to the remaking and amending of existing laws in order to achieve justice. Derrida speaks of a serious review of the judicial system based on the desire for an "impossible justice"; a justice that goes beyond the rational logic of law. Thus, deconstruction is not merely a theory of philosophical or literary texts that have nothing to do with external reality, but an ethical approach to the world that can change our way of thinking and social life toward “the other."

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Journal of Islam and Social Studies
Volume 5, Issue 17 - Serial Number 17
ExecutiveExpert
January 2017
Pages 82-105

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  • Receive Date: 01 January 2018
  • Accept Date: 01 January 2018

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