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Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas (Hardcover)
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Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas (Hardcover)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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This volume contains the speech given by Derrida at Emmanuel
Levinas's funeral on December 27, 1995, and his contribution to a
colloquium organized to mark the first anniversary of Levinas's
death. For both thinkers, the word "adieu" names a fundamental
characteristic of human being: the salutation or benediction prior
to all constative language (in certain circumstances, one can say
"adieu" at the moment of meeting) and that given at the moment of
separation, sometimes forever, as at the moment of death, it is
also the "a-dieu," for God or to God before and in any relation to
the other.
In this book, Derrida extends his work on Levinas in previously
unexplored directions via a radical rereading of "Totality and
Infinity" and other texts, including the lesser-known talmudic
readings. He argues that Levinas, especially in "Totality and
Infinity, " bequeaths to us an "immense treatise of hospitality," a
meditation on the welcome offered to the other. The conjunction of
an ethics of pure prescription with the idea of an infinite and
absolute hospitality confronts us with the most pressing political,
juridical, and institutional concerns of our time. What, then, is
an ethics and what is a politics of hospitality? And what, if it
ever "is, " would be a hospitality surpassing any ethics and any
politics we know?
As always, Derrida raises these questions in the most explicit of
terms, moving back and forth between philosophical argument and the
political discussion of immigration laws, peace, the state of
Israel, xenophobia--reminding us with every move that thinking is
not a matter of neutralizing abstraction, but a gesture of
hospitality for what happens and still may happen.
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