Towards an ethical relation to the nonhuman other : deconstruction, veganism and the law

De Villiers, Jan-Harm

dc.contributor.author	De Villiers, Jan-Harm
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-07T11:17:34Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-07T11:17:34Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description	An abridged version of this article was delivered at The Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa Conference in 2011.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This article explores the ethical significance of deconstruction for law and advances veganism as a form of deconstruction that exposes and resists the anthropocentric character of social and legal configurations. The article engages with Jacques Derrida’s project of deconstructing the (human) subject and draws on Drucilla Cornell’s reconception of deconstruction as the philosophy of the limit. By examining the philosophical foundations of justice and deconstruction, the article exposes justice as the limit to a system of law and investigates the capacity of deconstruction to advance the ethical relation (to the nonhuman Other). Justice? – you get justice in the next world, in this world, you have the law.	en
dc.description.librarian	nf2012	en
dc.description.uri	http://www.jutalaw.co.za/catalogue/itemdisplay.jsp?item_id=3600	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	De Villiers, J-H, 2012, 'Towards an ethical relation to the nonhuman other : deconstruction, veganism and the Law', South African Journal on Human Rights, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 18-30.	en
dc.identifier.issn	0258-7203
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/19557
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Juta Law	en_US
dc.rights	Juta Law	en_US
dc.subject	Ethical relations	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Deconstruction	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Veganism	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Law -- Interpretation and construction	en
dc.title	Towards an ethical relation to the nonhuman other : deconstruction, veganism and the law	en
dc.type	Article	en