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).

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.

• 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.

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).

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.

• 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.

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).

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.

• 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.