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Decisions, Decisions: Derrida on Kierkegaard and Abraham

Over the last 15 years or so, there has been an attempt by Derrida and some of his exegetes to show that deconstruction, in some vital if necessarily paradoxical way, is bound with or makes possible ethics, justice, and political responsibility.¹ Uppermost is the question of decision in particular and of decisiveness in general. Before addressing any specific issues, it is important to consider how and why this politicization of deconstruction may have come about. As Geoffrey Bennington remarks, there has always been an expectation or even a demand that deconstruction "should give rise to a politics or a political...