Abstract

The task of this work is to prove that the Derrida’s deconstructionism is permeated by many philosophical, ethical and political implications. In order to understand the reasons why it is possible to consider Derrida as a “political philosopher”, I firstly try to see in which sense his deconstructive thought consists in questioning the western philosophical tradition. Derrida affirms that it is characterized by “Phonologocentrism” and, from the political point of view, by “Fallogocentrism” and “Ipsocentrism”. The crucial point of our researches concerns the idea that Deconstruction does not represent a negative, nihilistic and irresponsible theoretical operation. On the contrary, it historically corresponds to the “course of things”, it assumes the shape of an “event” and it constitutes an assumption of responsibility towards that same event. Thanks to Deconstruction we can obtain many concepts (i.e. Democracy “to come”, Justice beyond Right, and Messianic without Messianism) that are able to “overcome” the global political crisis by relaunching a new political conceptuality, and the identification of a new international subject (Europe “to come”) which is able to work with this deconstructed conceptuality. Derrida also engages an interesting debate with two great thinkers of the political crisis: W. Benjamin and C. Schmitt. Finally, the deconstruction is able to give a punctual interpretation of the most representative event of our time: September 11th, 2001