Ethical discourse in an age cognisant of perspective. Reflections on Derrida’s ‘the laws of reflection: Nelson Mandela, in Admiration’

This essay explores the challenge ofarticulating ethical discourse in an age cognisant of perspective, intentionally, through Jacques Derrida’s admiration for Nelson Mandela in ‘The Laws of Reflection: Nelson Mandela, In Admiration.’ For Derrida, Mandela affirms anoriginary trace of human dignity, y...

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Main Author: Curkpatrick, Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands 2001
In: Sophia
Year: 2001, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 81-100
Further subjects:B Human Dignity
B Book review
B Categorical Imperative
B Spectral Reflection
B Legal Tradition
B Ethical Discourse
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