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“Of Hospitality provides us with a glimpse of Jacques Derrida as not only the brilliant thinker and writer readers have long admired but as the masterful lecturer and pedagogue his students have long known. . . . Of Hospitality should find a welcome audience not only among faithful readers of Derrida but among all those who are open enough to hear the knock at their borders or their doors.”—L’Esprit Créateur
“Both lectures [in the book] deserve credit not only for representing a significant step in Derrida’s reflection on ethics and politics but also for prompting us to begin our own deconstructive work and rethink our identity.”—Symploke
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These two lectures by Jacques Derrida, “Foreigner Question” and “Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality,” derive from a series of seminars on “hospitality” conducted by Derrida in Paris, January 1996. His seminars, in France and in America, have become something of an institution over the years, the place where he presents the ongoing evolution of his thought in a remarkable combination of thoroughly mapped-out positions, sketches of new material, and exchanges with students and interlocutors.
As has become a pattern in Derrida's recent work, the form of this presentation is a self-conscious enactment of its content. The book consists of two texts on facing pages. “Invitation” by Anne Dufourmantelle appears on the left (an invitation that of course originates in a response), clarifying and inflecting Derrida’s “response” on the right. The interaction between them not only enacts the “hospitality” under discussion, but preserves something of the rhythms of teaching.
The volume also characteristically combines careful readings of canonical texts and philosophical topics with attention to the most salient events in the contemporary world, using “hospitality” as a means of rethinking a range of political and ethical situations. “Hospitality” is viewed as a question of what arrives at the borders, in the initial surprise of contact with an other, a stranger, a foreigner. For example, Antigone is revisited in light of the question of impossible mourning; Oedipus at Colonus is read via concerns that also apply to teletechnology; the trial of Socrates is brought into conjunction with the televised funeral of François Mitterrand.
As has become a pattern in Derrida's recent work, the form of this presentation is a self-conscious enactment of its content. The book consists of two texts on facing pages. “Invitation” by Anne Dufourmantelle appears on the left (an invitation that of course originates in a response), clarifying and inflecting Derrida’s “response” on the right. The interaction between them not only enacts the “hospitality” under discussion, but preserves something of the rhythms of teaching.
The volume also characteristically combines careful readings of canonical texts and philosophical topics with attention to the most salient events in the contemporary world, using “hospitality” as a means of rethinking a range of political and ethical situations. “Hospitality” is viewed as a question of what arrives at the borders, in the initial surprise of contact with an other, a stranger, a foreigner. For example, Antigone is revisited in light of the question of impossible mourning; Oedipus at Colonus is read via concerns that also apply to teletechnology; the trial of Socrates is brought into conjunction with the televised funeral of François Mitterrand.
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It is Derrida's poetic hospitality that I would like to invoke in these pages, including the difficulty of giving its due to the night-to that which, within a philosophical kind of thinking, does not belong to the order of the day, the visible, and memory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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It is Derrida's poetic hospitality that I would like to invoke in these pages, including the difficulty of giving its due to the night-to that which, within a philosophical kind of thinking, does not belong to the order of the day, the visible, and memory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Apology of Socrates (Cambridge Elementary Classics: Greek) by Plato on page 131, and Back Matter
- Perpetual Peace, and Other Essays on Politics, History, and Morals (HPC Classics Series) by Immanuel Kant on page 27, and page 141
- World Spectators (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Kaja Silverman in Back Matter
- Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Samuel Wheeler III in Back Matter
- Black Holes / J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading (Cultural Memory in the Present) by J. Miller in Back Matter
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- Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida by Hent de Vries on 6 pages
- Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida by Hent de Vries on 6 pages
- Later Derrida: Reading the Recent Work by Herman Rapaport on 4 pages
- Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility (Thamyris /Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 12) (Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race) by Maria Margaroni on 4 pages
- Later Derrida: Reading the Recent Work by Herman Rapaport on 4 pages
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