The aporia of decision-making. An approach to the notion of justice in the thought of Jacques Derrida

Abstract

In this article I propose an approach to the notion of justice in the thought of Jacques Derrida through the exposition of the aporia of decision-making. In order to do so, I will use The gift of death as a guide. I intend to demonstrate that the exposition of the self to the other, which demands taking the incalculable into account, is presupposed in the aforementioned aporia. If what is at stake resides in a problematization of the subjectivity in terms of the decision and the responsibility that is required of it, it would be necessary to rethink classical notions such as autonomy and heteronomy. Justice must be examined, as a result of a movement that incorporates both notions and that is at the same time born from the other. In other words, before justice may be conceived of under a calculus and a rule, it it should have to take the incalculable into account.