Deconstructive Turn of Ethics: Subversion of Self-identity in Derrida and Levinas

Differing from the mainstream notion about deconstruction as a differential reading of texts, paper views it primarily process subversion self-identity person who faces ‘alterity’ other in concrete ethical situation. Thus is seen more an existential experience individual rather than socio-political process. It seeks pathway Derrida’s texts to Emmanuel Levinas’s trial individuality by ‘face’ other. The face that calls for responsibility ‘I’, challenges his autonomy. As human self-identities are unreal constructs produced ontology through integration multiple experiences phenomena into uniform apperception consciousness, its rupture alone will guarantee passage realm ‘otherness’. ‘Otherness’ manifested ethics viewed intense and radical identity takes place textual experience.