Etinių aporijų prasmėir / ar beprasmy bė: Derrida pokalbis su Levinu
Sense and / or Nonsense of Ethical Aporia: Derrida’s Conversation with Levinas

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the deconstructive approach developed by Jacques Derrida towards Emmanuel Levinas’s metaphysic-existential ethics. Regarding Derrida’s critique of the religious character of Levinas’s ethics, the goal of this analysis was to track Derrida’s thought, with the intention of inquiring practicality or even intelligibility of the aporia, which, according to Derrida, are essential to Levinas’s ethics. Following the analysis, the conclusion was drawn: Derrida’s critique of Levinas is “valid” when constrained to aporetic deconstructionist logic solely. However, a clear existential moment – absolute opposition to general logic, hence to deconstructionist logic as well – can be found in Levinas’s thinking. How the notion of the (im)possible is approached becomes the main disagreement between the two philosophers: for Derrida, the ethical relationship is haunted by the impossible, while for Levinas the possible is always the first as it comes before logos and / or metaphysics.

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