Abstract: In this chapter, deconstruction is explained and the ethics of deconstruction is explored. It is specifically argued that Derrida's philosophy offers a productive reading of a complex notion of ethics, for the following three reasons: Firstly, Derrida's work on quasi-transcendental or limit concepts provides a means for addressing the methodological complexity of thinking together a system and its environment, and thereby both constitutes as engagement with the ethics of complexity, and serves to articulate the ethical interruption of ontological closure. Secondly, in deconstructing the conceptual models that inform our practices, Derrida is able to de-naturalise these models and thereby draw attention to both the ethics of complexity and the supplementary complications that pervade all meaning. In so doing, Derrida opens the door to otherness and difference, despite his radically immanent and contextualised understanding of ethics. Thirdly, in explicitly addressing the ethical-political implications that arise due to the limitations of our knowledge claims, Derrida's oeuvre allows for a sophisticated and thorough analysis of the implications that critical complexity thinking hold in the human domain. Derrida's work therefore lends philosophical grounding to the insights gleaned from the analysis on critical complexity thinking undertaken in the previous chapter.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-08-23
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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