Hospitality, Volume I

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Several of his books have been published in translation by the University of Chicago Press. E. S. Burt is professor emerita of French and English at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of two books, including Regard for the Other: Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde. Pascale-Anne Brault is professor of French at DePaul University. Peggy Kamuf is professor emerita of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California.

“[Derrida's seminars] constitute not only a record of his work as a teacher, but also an intellectual journal, preserving his responses to new developments in politics, philosophy and literature. . . . Derrida was probably the best-known philosopher of his generation, but the publication of his seminars reveals that he was also a conscientious, kind and industrious teacher. His classroom was, it would seem, his studio, his workshop, even his intellectual home."

• Foreword to the English Edition   General Introduction to the French Edition    Editors’ Note      Translator’s Note  First Session         Appendix 1    Second Session  Third Session    Fourth Session Appendix 2   Fifth Session    Discussion SessionSixth Session Seventh Session Eighth Session   Ninth Session  Annex 1—Session of the Closed SeminarAnnex 2—Session of the Closed Seminar          Index of Proper Names