“Ethics in Derrida requires an affirmation of friendship and hospitality on the basis that I always have something outside myself inside myself, so affirmation of self requires affirmation of others. Ethics cannot be absolutist.” Barry Stocker, author of a new reader on Derrida, discusses Derrida’s ethical philosophy and its indebtedness to Kierkegaard, Levinas, and J. L. Austin.
Barry Stocker
is lecturer in philosophy at Yeditepe University in Istanbul and at University College London. He is author of a new Derrida reader published by Routledge in 2006.
