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I'm reminded of a bumper sticker: "If you're not confused,you just don't understand the situation."
Being Just with Deconstruction
by J.M. Balkin
For several years now I have been concerned with the problem of how one should apply the
insights of deconstructive practice to questions of law and justice. This question is far from
easy, although many people (in American legal theory, in particular) have simply assumed
that deconstruction could readily be adapted to political questions, and, in particular, to the
political agenda of the left. The problem, however, is that deconstructive techniques do not
seem to support any particular vision of justice; indeed they appear to preclude the
possibility of any stable conception of the just or the good that could provide the basis for
political belief or the authority for political action...................................................
And the excrement gets deeper and deeper
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