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Context, Event, Politics: Recovering the Political in the Work of Jacques Derrida

The French philosopher Jacques Derrida is most well known for instituting the school, or method, known as deconstruction, whereby one...interprets? No, critiques? No, challenges? Perhaps, changes? Maybe, performs? Certainly. Performs what? Justice? Was Derrida, then, a political philosopher, and deconstruction a political philosophy? Many readers of Derrida see what they call a political "turn" in his work near the end of the 1980s or early 1990s, when the content dealt with within that period and after was that of traditionally "political" themes (justice, law, friendship, immigration, etc.). But what makes a work, or thinker, political? I will argue...