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Jacques Derrida: Law As Absolute Hospitality?presents A Comprehensive Account And Understanding Of Derrida's Approach To Law And Justice. Through A Detailed Reading Of Derrida's Texts, Jacques De Ville Contends That It Is Only By Way Of Derrida's Deconstruction Of The Metaphysics Of Presence, And Specifically In Relation To The Texts Of Husserl, Levinas, Freud And Heidegger - That The Reasoning Behind His Elusive Works On Law And Justice Can Be Grasped. Through Detailed Readings Of Texts Such As To Speculate - On Freud, Adieu, Declarations Of Independence Jacques Derrida; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List Of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Dominant Readings Of Derrida In The Legal Context; Derrida And The Metaphysics Of Presence; Title And Series; Sequence And Overview Of Chapters; Chapter 2 Declarations Of Independence; Speech Acts: Founding A State; Representation; The Signature; The Proper Name; Beyond Sovereignty; Chapter 3 Before The Law; Freud's Totem And Taboo; Lévi-strauss On Totemism And The Prohibition Of Incest; Derrida On Lévi-strauss; Before The Law; Originary Guilt And Parricide; Chapter 4 Madness And The Law Cogito And The History Of Madnessdoing Justice To Freud; Law And Madness; Chapter 5 The Gift Beyond Exchange; Heidegger And Metaphysics; Mauss's The Gift; Derrida On The Gift; The Gift, Time And Law; Chapter 6 Force Of Law; Justice, Singularity And The Event; Undecidability; The 'mystical Foundation Of Authority'; Repetition And Law-enforcing Violence; 'applying' Justice; Chapter 7 The Haunting Of Justice; Heidegger's Reading; Derrida's Reading; The Revolution; Chapter 8 Hospitality Towards The Future; Rethinking Conceptuality; Law, Politics And Hospitality Legal Philosophers Of A New Speciesbibliography; Index Jacques De Ville. A Glasshouse Book. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English