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Justice based upon the life of the living present enters the problems of relativity, whereas any metaphysical underpinning of justice transports the concept beyond its empirical and ontological actuality. Such justice, according to Derrida, assumes the qualities of the spectre it defies the finality of life and death, but is dependent upon both dimensions. xix), and continuously unsettles an unknown future: ‘This question arrives, if it arrives, it questions with regard to what will come in the future-to-come’ (ibid., p. Such a responsibility entails a quest for unfound justice irreducible to laws and legal documents, requires ‘respect for justice concerning those who are not there’ (ibid., p. Hauntology, Derrida terms his philosophical investigation of ‘ responsibility, beyond all living present, within that which disjoins the living present, before the ghost of those who are not yet born or who are already dead, be they victims of wars, political or other kinds of violence, nationalist, racist, colonialist, sexist or other kinds of exterminations, victims of oppressions of capitalist imperialism or any form of totalitarianism’ (Derrida, 1994, p.
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