Abstract
This article uses a close reading of Jacques Derrida’s short work Archive fever: A Freudian impression (1996), in order to show the structural impossibility for law and the wider legal system to protect itself from the destabilising effects of deconstruction. It shows law’s inability to stabilise/close the system and hence its inability to ‘assure order’.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 632-645 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | South African Journal of Philosophy |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |