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Of Hospitality (Hardcover)
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Of Hospitality (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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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
Francois Mitterrand.
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