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The ghostly dance of Zarathustra
(2013)
Reading of C.W. Maris’s Nietzsche-Niëzky-Nijinsky: De Dans van Zarathustra (2004) and De Dans van Zarathustra: Nietzsche en de vrolijke rechtswetenschap (2006).
Derrida and legal scholarship: A certain step beyond
(Springer, 2009)
A book review of 'Derrida and Legal Philosophy' edited by Peter Goodrich, Florian Hoffmann, Michel Rosenfeld, Cornelia Vismann, published by Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke, Hampshire/New York), 2008, ISBN-13: 978-0-230-57361-1.
Rethinking the notion of a 'higher law': Heidegger and Derrida on the Anaximander fragment
(Springer, 2009)
The Anaximander fragment, in the readings of both Heidegger and Derrida, speaks of that which exceeds positive law. In this article, the author provides a detailed reading of Heidegger’s Der Spruch des Anaximander, showing ...
The Gift and the meaning-giving subject: A Reading of Given Time
(Springer, 2010)
In this essay the relation between justice and the gift in Derrida’s thinking is explored. The essay shows that an understanding of the ontological difference or the relation between Being and beings in Heidegger’s thinking ...
Madness and the law: The Derrida/Foucault debate revisited
(Springer, 2010)
In this article the Derrida/Foucault debate is scrutinised with two closely related aims in mind: (1) reconsidering the way in which Foucault’s texts, and especially the more recently published lectures, should be read; ...
Levinas on law: A Derridean reading of Manderson’s Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law
(Griffith University, Griffith Law School, Socio-Legal Research Centre, 2007)
In this article, Desmond Manderson’s book, Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law (2006) is analysed specifically with reference to the accuracy with which it translates Derrida’s thinking into law. Manderson, in a number ...
Deconstruction and law: Derrida, Levinas and Cornell
(University of Windsor, 2007)
Drucilla Cornell’s book The Philosophy of the Limit has for a long time been an important reference point in attempting to understand the relation between deconstruction and law. This article examines some of the themes ...
Sovereignty without sovereignty: Derrida’s Declarations of Independence
(Springer, 2008)
This article questions the common assumptions in legal theory regarding Derrida’s well-known Declarations of Independence. Through a close reading of this text, well-known ground such as the relation between speech and ...
Mythology and the images of justice
(University of California Press, 2011)
This essay enquires into the depictions of Justice through the ages, as well as the myths surrounding these depictions, more particularly in Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as in modern times. The essay departs in significant ...
Derrida's 'The Purveyor of Truth' and constitutional reading
(Springer, 2008)
In this article the author explores Jacques Derrida’s reading in ‘The Purveyor of Truth’ of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’. In his essay, Derrida proposes a reading which differs markedly from the interpretation ...