Revisiting Violence and Life in the Early Work of Jacques Derrida

Elmore talks about Jacques Derrida's violence and life in the early works. To put it succinctly, Elmore traces the way in which structural arid empirical violence are linked through an exclusionary logic that is concentrated around the figures of the ethnos and life. In outlining this roadmap, the landmarks of "originary" and "reparatory" violence bear particular attention, as he argues that the passage from structural to empirical violence in Derrida's thinking occurs through a reparatory delimiting of originary violence.