| This dissertation has a twofold purpose: (1) to show the highly ethical argument that inheres deconstructive philosophy and (2) to show, furthermore, that this argument towards ethics in deconstruction is one that derives to a large degree from deconstruction's inextricable interwoveness with modern Jewish philosophy. Deconstruction does not only become a philosophy with an ethical aspect; but in embracing the differential character of the world as it is suspended between infinite origin and infinite telos it repeats Hermann Cohen's Jewish neo-Kantian understanding of the world as an infinite ethical task on its way toward the infinitely removed goal. The dissertation, in looking specifically at the relationship between Levinas and Cohen and Derrida and Cohen, attempts to highlight this repetition and seek its application specifically in Derrida's understanding of the purpose and functioning of the university. |
