{"id":159815,"date":"2025-07-24T14:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azbuki.bg\/?p=159815"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:35:12","slug":"a-commitment-to-irresponsibility-on-derridas-passions-an-oblique-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philosophy.azbuki.bg\/en\/uncategorized\/a-commitment-to-irresponsibility-on-derridas-passions-an-oblique-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"A Commitment to Irresponsibility: On Derrida\u2019s Passions: \u2018An Oblique Offering\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Johan de Jong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Leiden University, The Netherlands<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-02-06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-02-06<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract. <\/strong>In accounts of deconstruction\u2019s concern with responsibility, what is often overlooked is its commitment to specific forms of irresponsibility as not just unavoidable but necessary. This article traces that necessity, through a reading of Derrida\u2019s \u201cPassions: \u2018An Oblique Offering\u2019\u201d, in the logics governing invitation, hospitality, and literature, and how this irresponsibility is expressed performatively in the \u201coblique\u201d character of Derrida\u2019s textual experimentation. I argue for this irresponsibility as not destructively opposed to responsibility but as part and parcel of deconstruction\u2019s ethical commitment. This irresponsibility distinguishes deconstructive ethics not just from the relativism long ascribed to \u2018postmodernism\u2019, but also from an ethics of responsibility of a Levinasian type. Finally, I argue for this commitment to irresponsibility against contemporary criticisms that deem deconstruction symptomatic of a 1990\u2019s-style ironizing that one supposedly can no longer afford, given the challenges of today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Keywords:<\/em> Derrida; Irresponsibility; Responsibility; Deconstruction; Commitment<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/philosophy.azbuki.bg\/en\/member-login\/\">Log in to read the full text<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johan de Jong Leiden University, The Netherlands https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-02-06 Abstract. In accounts of deconstruction\u2019s concern with responsibility, what is often overlooked is its commitment to specific forms of irresponsibility as not just unavoidable but necessary. This article traces that necessity, through a reading of Derrida\u2019s \u201cPassions: \u2018An Oblique Offering\u2019\u201d, in the logics governing invitation, hospitality, and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":124332423427287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Commitment to Irresponsibility: On Derrida\u2019s Passions: \u2018An Oblique Offering\u2019 - \u0410\u0437-\u0431\u0443\u043a\u0438<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bel.azbuki.bg\/en\/uncategorized\/a-commitment-to-irresponsibility-on-derridas-passions-an-oblique-offering\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Commitment to Irresponsibility: On Derrida\u2019s Passions: \u2018An Oblique Offering\u2019 - \u0410\u0437-\u0431\u0443\u043a\u0438\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Johan de Jong Leiden University, The Netherlands https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-02-06 Abstract. 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