A review by atsundarsingh
On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness by Mark Dooley, Michael Hughes, Simon Critchley, Richard Kearney, Jacques Derrida

4.0

I didn't want to like Derrida, because the other Derrida readings I have done say things like "the structurality of structure" and to be honest I find it annoying how difficulty those concepts are to parse. These essays on the other hand felt quite clear, and relevant to the current moment. Dealing in themes such as who can forgive, what rules of asylum a good city should have, and what to do with our old practices of hospitality in a world not built for them, Derrida posits some ideas worth mulling over. Maybe deconstruction is worth my time after all....