The Ethics of Deconstruction, Simon Critchley's first book, was originally
published to great acclaim in 1992. The first book to argue for the ethical turn
in Derrida's work, it powerfully shows how deconstruction has persuasive ethical
consequences that are vital to our thinking through of questions of politics and
democracy.
Moving away from using deconstruction to find the contradictions inherent in any
text, Critchley concerns himself with the philosophical context the ethical
impetus Derrida's ethics to be understood in relation to his engagement with the
work of Levinas, and lays out the details of their philosophical confrontation.
New for this edition: A new preface where Critchley reveals