Article: DERRIDA BRINGS LEVINAS TO KANT: THE WELCOME, ETHICS, AND COSMOPOLITICAL LAW

This essay explores the nature of Derrida's longstanding interest in the relation between Levinasian ethics and Kantian moral and political philosophy. As early as 1964, in his very first work devoted to Levinas, Derrida turns his mind to this relation, expressing regret that "no systematic and patient confrontation" had yet been organized by Levinas "with Kant in particular."1 Despite this lack, Derrida wants to demarcate early Levinasian ethics as "at once profoundly faithful to Kant (for 'Respect is applied only to persons' Practical Reason) and implicitly anti-Kantian," lacking "the formal element of universality, without the pure order of the law."2 Without answering his question in ...

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