Abstract

This chapter focuses on Jacques Derrida’s forty-year engagement with Kant. Giving Kant a significant place in the early formulation of deconstruction in the 1960s, Derrida spends much of the 1970s responding to and challenging Heidegger’s reading of Kant. From the 1980s onwards, Derrida turns to a remarkable analysis of the ethics and politics of Kant’s practical philosophy. The chapter concludes with an analysis of Derrida’s recently published seminar, Donner le temps II.