Abstract
M.A. (Philosophy)
This dissertation explores the concept of responsibility in Derrida‟s The Gift of Death and elsewhere. Derrida‟s argument is that for a person to respond to one form of responsibility he must betray another. My aim in the dissertation is to explore this paradox and its implications for our relation to the other human being and to the community. I try to show that absolute and general responsibility can coexist, more, that they are complementary to each other.