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reminds us that "... there is no such thing as law (droit) that does not imply in itself, in the
analytic structure of its concept, the possibility of being 'enforced', applied by force" (p.
6).
Moving ahead, Derrida next asks how are we to distinguish this force of law and the
violence that one deems unjust? What difference is there between the force that can be
just (or at least legitimate) and the unjust violence? And, further, "How are we to
distinguish between the force of law of a legitimate power and the supposedly originary
violence that must have established this authority and could not itself have been
authorized by any anterior legitimacy so that, in this initial moment, it is neither legal nor
illegal - or, others would quickly say, neither just nor unjust?" (p. 6)5.
making law, would consist of a coup de force, of a performative and therefore interpretive
violence that in itself is neither just nor unjust and that no justice and no previous law
illegal in their founding moment for they exceed the opposition between founded and
unfounded.
transformable textual strata land that is the history of law [droitl, its possible and
necessary transformation, sometimes it amelioration), or because its ultimate foundation is
by definition unfounded.
law (droit), or if you prefer justice as droit, that also insures the possibility of
deconstruction. Justice in itself, if such a thing exists, outside or beyond law, is not
deconstructible.
THE PARADOX
inseparable from it. (3) The result: deconstruction takes place in the interval that separates
the possibility of
justice - that is, the possibility that is possible as an experience of the impossible, of the
aporia.