Democracy and Justice - 9780367000288

Taylor & Francis

Democracy and JusticeReading Derrida in Istanbul\nAuthor(s): Agnes Czajka\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367000288, 978-0367000288\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the possibilities offered by Derridas work on democracy for interpreting contemporary struggles over democracy in Turkey. \n\nThe relationship between democracy and justice seems of unquestionable importance to Derrida, with democracy and justice held in tension by deconstruction. Agnes Czajka offers a qualified endorsement of a just democracy, grounded in the possibilities opened up by reading Derridas work on democracy together with his work on justice. She posits that one way of imagining democracy-to-come might be to imagine it as a just democracy, or one poised at the intersection of the aporia of democracy and the (non)imperative to justice. In the particular context of contemporary struggles over democracy in Turkey, she also explores what such .