Under the black light: Derrida, war, and human rights

Nick Mansfield*

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    Abstract

    This essay investigates how Derrida's deconstruction of the oppositions between, on the one hand, war and peace as discussed by Levinas, and, on the other, Carl Schmitt's conception of the political in terms of the friend/enemy distinction, helps us to understand the present unstable relationship between war and human rights.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)151-164
    Number of pages14
    JournalMosaic
    Volume40
    Issue number2
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

    Keywords

    • Derrida
    • war
    • human rights
    • Levinas
    • deconstruction

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