Derrida and Hospitality

Theory and Practice

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Judith Still sets Derrida's work in a series of contexts in a series of contexts including the socio-political history of France, especially in relation to Algeria, and his relationship to other writers, most importantly Hélène Cixous and Emmanuel Levinas: key thinkers of hospitality. Working across the full breadth of fields that Derrida's work on hospitality influenced, Still thinks through relationships between individuals and the community or state. Judith Still also follows the thread of sexual difference in Derrida's writing to shed light on his exploration of the complex and delicate, strange yet familiar, political and ethical dilemmas of how to be those impossible things: a good host and a good guest.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-11-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:464 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748669639
Utmärkelser:Winner of Society for French Studies: R. H. Gapper Book Prize 2011

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Judith Still is Professor of French and Critical Theory and Head of the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Justice and Differences in the Works of Rousseau (CUP, 1993), Feminine Economies: Thinking against the Market in the Enlightenment and the Late Twentieth Century (MUP, 1997), Derrida and Hospitality (EUP, 2010, Gapper Prize winner 2011) and Enlightenment Hospitality (Voltaire Foundation, 2011).

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An important, intelligent book on the context of Derrida's thinking about hospitality ... This indispensable volume enhances understanding of the French cultural and political context of Derrida's thinking. Summing Up: Highly Recommended.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction to the Question of Hospitality: Ethics and Politics; 2. Patriarchs and their Women, Some Inaugural Intertexts of Hospitality: The Odyssey, Abraham, Lot and the Levite of Ephraim; 3. Friendship and Sexual difference: Hospitality from Brotherhood to Motherhood and Beyond; 4. Names and the Other - (Not) Asking for a Name, Naming, Calling by Name in Tales of Algerians; 5. The Dangers of Hospitality: the French State, Cultural Difference and Gods; 6. Animals and What Is Human; 7. Concluding Around Hospitality; Bibliography; Index.