Margins of Desire: The Foundations of Derridas Social Ethics

In this research, the author analyzes Derridas understanding of the way society is created out of a collection of individuals, how the individuals preserve their singularity and freedom within a social system and the meaning of ethics, as it comes out in his early writings. In this work, the researcher used a phenomenological method of research and Cassirers way of analyzing the symbolic forms as a framework to analyze the early writing of Derrida. Although it is not a common approach to combine Derridas philosophy with that of Cassirers, the researcher found that Cassirers ideas help to show Derridas unique position.