Of Hospitality
by Jacques Derrida, Anne Dufourmantelle
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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. show more 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 François Mitterrand. show lessTags
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The law of hospitality, the express law that governs the
general concept of hospitality, appears as a paradoxical
law, pervertible and perverting. It seems to dictate that
absolute hospitality should break with the law of
hospitality as right or duty . . ..
The facts present an incontrovertible coincidence as I remain puzzled and dazed: I retired after reading to the conclusion and found my waking conditioned by the attacks in Brussels. AD's invitation is actually a response, we as hosts are hostages and the immigrants keep language and their interred kin as vestiges of home. I imagine this seminar was much more personal for Derrida than he affects.
general concept of hospitality, appears as a paradoxical
law, pervertible and perverting. It seems to dictate that
absolute hospitality should break with the law of
hospitality as right or duty . . ..
The facts present an incontrovertible coincidence as I remain puzzled and dazed: I retired after reading to the conclusion and found my waking conditioned by the attacks in Brussels. AD's invitation is actually a response, we as hosts are hostages and the immigrants keep language and their interred kin as vestiges of home. I imagine this seminar was much more personal for Derrida than he affects.
"Anne Dufourmantelle asiste al seminario de Jacques Derrida y le pide el texto de las dos clases acerca de la hospitalidad y la hostilidad, el otro y el extranjero. Las presenta en este libro, en que aparecen intercaladas, página a página, las voces de ambos pensadores. La xenofobia, la disolución de lo privado en lo público, Internet y el correo electrónico son problemas de nuestro tiempo que nos llevan a preguntarnos sobre las fronteras, sean virtuales o reales, entre lo propio y lo extraño. Elaborados filosóficamente por Derrida los malestares adquieren nombres propios...". (Descripción editorial).
I'll provide a more substantial review later, but can I just lodge a complaint about the 'Liquid Sky' jacket photo of JD? I'm considering pasting over it with another photo...or with a picture of his cat.
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> "De l'Hospitalité" - Fragments
Cet article est extrait de l'ouvrage : De l'Hospitalité, de Jacques Derrida et Anne Dufourmantelle, © Calmann-Lévy 1997.
In: Ecarts d'identité N°84/85 - Mars/Juin 1998 (pp. 2-5) … ; (en ligne),
URL : https://semefr.hypotheses.org/files/2021/04/Derrida_hospitalite_fragments_1998.p...
> A propos de
« Anne Dufourmantelle invite Jacques Derrida à répondre
De l’hospitalité »
Par Florence Even
Centre Jean Bodin - Université d’Angers … ; (en ligne),
URL : show more target="_top">https://blog.univ-angers.fr/collectifaccueil/files/2015/11/Jacques-Derrida-1.pdf show less
> Voir un extrait : https://books.google.fr/books?id=yhtb_TCTLFIC&hl=fr&printsec=frontcover&...
> "De l'Hospitalité" - Fragments
Cet article est extrait de l'ouvrage : De l'Hospitalité, de Jacques Derrida et Anne Dufourmantelle, © Calmann-Lévy 1997.
In: Ecarts d'identité N°84/85 - Mars/Juin 1998 (pp. 2-5) … ; (en ligne),
URL : https://semefr.hypotheses.org/files/2021/04/Derrida_hospitalite_fragments_1998.p...
> A propos de
« Anne Dufourmantelle invite Jacques Derrida à répondre
De l’hospitalité »
Par Florence Even
Centre Jean Bodin - Université d’Angers … ; (en ligne),
URL : show more target="_top">https://blog.univ-angers.fr/collectifaccueil/files/2015/11/Jacques-Derrida-1.pdf show less
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Jacques Derrida was born in El-Biar, Algeria on July 15, 1930. He graduated from the École Normal Supérieure in 1956. He taught philosophy and logic at both the University of Paris and the École Normal Supérieure for around 30 years. His works of philosophy and linguistics form the basis of the school of criticism known as deconstruction. This show more theory states that language is an inadequate method to give an unambiguous definition of a work, as the meaning of text can differ depending on reader, time, and context. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 40 books on various aspects of deconstruction including Of Grammatology, Glas, The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, and Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce. He died of pancreatic cancer on October 9, 2004 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Anne Dufourmantelle was born in Paris, France on March 20, 1964. She attended Brown University and received a doctoral degree in philosophy from Paris-Sorbonne University. She was a philosopher and psychoanalyst who praised living a life that embraced risk. She wrote several books including Éloge du Risque (In Praise of Risk). She drowned while show more trying to save two children who were struggling to swim off the coast of Pampelonne beach in France on July 21, 2017 at the age of 53. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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