Derrida’s Thought of Gender Difference: A Future Deferring Politics

Derrida, who has deconstructed various texts of history of philosophy, deciphers the construction of the tradition characterized by the hierarchical contrasts through tracing the words of the tradition and its moods, the things it emphasizes and ignores, the ones that it underlines and crosses out. It also means a total critique of tradition, how and for whatever reasons the dominant concepts that have always been in a relationship with its contrary in the sense of asymmetrical and hierarchical polarities like speech-writing, signifier-signified, object-subject, soul-body, mind-nature, man-woman etc. The dichotomy of man-woman or the gender difference that constitutes only one aspect of this comprehensive critique reflects the fundamental interest of this work. In the context of this duality, the implication of a possible policy will be discussed in this study by emphasizing how Derrida's deconstruction strategy and the notion of différance offer an insight in terms of gender differences