Deconstruction,Friendship And Future Democracy

Derrida's political philosophy thoughts is a deeptly reflection on the human's exist circumstance in the modern democracy system. He indicated in the background of globalization of contemporary capitalism, liberal democracy don't realize human's freedom, equality and democracy. Friendship is't confined to the ethical aspects in the private sphere, it also has deeply political meaning. Friendship and politics are closely related. From Greece to nowadays, a popular friendship model during the history of friendship concept is brotherhood, which has the pursuit of identity and stability, with the characteristics of calculation, reciprocity and male-centrism. These characteristics of friendship model resulted in distinguishing between friends and enemies in the modern political ideas and the concept of democracy, division and rejection, based on the natural and false genetic relationship. It is the root causes of the modern democracy faced many difficulties within the framework of nation-states. Derrida's deconstruction found another friendship different from brotherhood, with initiativity, asymmetry, transcendence, heterogeneity and infinity. It keeps the distance and the possibility of transformation between the friend and enemy. On the basis of the thoughts of Levinas's ethics for the other and Nancy's love community, Derrida set up a democratic theory of deconstruction. He made democracy out of the root of the clime and the relation of fellowman, and gave the heterogeneity and unconditional to democracy. The democracy can not be limited to a political system, it's core meaning is the relationship of a man with others. It harmonize the contradictory of people's equality and independence requirements with friendship, then realize equality, justice and fairness, maintain and respect for the independence of difference of each individual. The real essence of democracy is promises and expectations, with a Messianism without Messianism. Derrida's thoughts provided a new angle of view to understand the philosophy, politics and democracy again, that contained profound political-ethic responsibility and concern for being. Derrida's unique philosophical insight for the crisis of democracy and cultural in contemporary capitalism not only reflect the dimension of the liberation of human and the communism ideal of the Marxist, namely the recognition and inheritance of the spirit of justice, but also can promote the study of contemporary Marxist and the development of European left-wing radical democracy, as well as the establishment of the ethics and democratic relationship in the background of globalization and the reflection on modern democracy politics under the dimension of criticism to modernity. But Derrida's politics of friendship had its problems in theories system itself and idealism with the lack of practice, it's inspire significance to the tasks that we face in contemporary China is limited.