The Affirmation of Deconstruction – Perhaps

In The Politics of Friendship, through the Nietzschean vision of a ‘new species of philosophers’ to come, the ‘philosophers of the dangerous perhaps’, Jacques Derrida sees the nascent possibility of an entirely new experience and thus an equally new thought: the experience and thought of the ‘perhaps’. Given the context, this reference to the experience and thought of the ‘perhaps’ has always been interpreted in an ethical-political key, but another text, ‘Perhaps or Maybe’, explicitly dedicated to the experience and thought of the ‘perhaps’, could allow us to grasp its more radical affirmation over and above its demonstrated effectiveness in the context of the deconstruction of the political.