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Jacques Derrida on Recognition

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Jacques Derrida’s work proposes a counter-intuitive approach on recognition based on asymmetry. Since his 1967 book, Writing and Difference, the question of the (right) relationship to the other shows up recurringly in his writings. Against a model based on reciprocity, Derrida suspects the “play of the Same” to make violence to the other. The main issue is: How should the other be addressed? Derrida tackles the encounter as a visitation, an emergence of the other that gives rise to the experience of a separation. With this perspective on recognition, the theory of deconstruction questions the very bases of ethics.

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  1. Institut des Sciences Juridique et Philosophique de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, Frankreich

    Isabelle Aubert

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    Heikki Ikaheimo

  3. Philosophisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Philosophisches Seminar, Münster, Germany

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Aubert, I. (2018). Jacques Derrida on Recognition. In: Siep, L., Ikaheimo, H., Quante, M. (eds) Handbuch Anerkennung. Springer Reference Geisteswissenschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19561-8_41-1

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