<Articles>Justice as Transcendence in Translation : Singularity and Experience in Derrida (The 7th International Symposium between the Institute of Education, University of London (UK), and the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University (Japan))

Abstract

This paper starts with a sentence about translation that is a citation in the latter work of Derrida, Donner la mort, which comes from Kierkegaard. It says that speech translates singularity to universality. By following Derrida's analysis of the absolute responsibility in contrast with the human ethics in Kierkegaard, I will show that how translation is the key for these two concepts with its negative connotation. But I will find a positive connation in associating this interpretation with the analysis of the justice in Derrida, in which the relationship between the justice and the law has the same structure of the absolute responsibility and the human ethics. In the end, combining these two analyses into the autobiographical work of Derrida, we will see the positive aspect of translation that is the emancipation of the solitude of ourselves.