ABSTRACT
Deconstruction deconstructs ethics, or shows up ethics deconstructing in deconstruction, but some sense of ethics or the ethical, something archi-ethical, perhaps, survives the deconstruction resources or emerges as its origin. Ethics is metaphysical through and through and simply be assumed or affirmed in deconstruction. In this sense, 'ethics' too always might provide deconstruction with resources repressed or left unexploited by its metaphysical determination, and these resources might be in some way 'more powerful' than that metaphysical determination, in excess of it. In which case deconstruction indescribable as ethical, and perhaps as ethics itself. In 'Force of Law', Jacques Derrida famously and mysteriously claims that justice is the undeconstructible condition of deconstruction and it seems that this must have some ethical resonance if it is too intelligible. In the context of 'deconstruction and ethics', it is this principle that ensures the possibility both of the ever-singular 'ethical' relation and of its perpetual transgression and dispersion in 'political' multiplicity.
