Derrida and Hospitality

Derrida and Hospitality PDF Author: Judith Still
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748687270
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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The first full-length study of hospitality in the writings of Jacques Derrida

Derrida and Hospitality

Derrida and Hospitality PDF Author: Judith Still
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748687270
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Book Description
The first full-length study of hospitality in the writings of Jacques Derrida

Of Hospitality

Of Hospitality PDF Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804734066
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Consisting of two texts on facing pages, the form of this presentation of two 1996 lectures on hospitality by Jacques Derrida is a self-conscious enactment of its content. Invitation by Anne Dufourmantelle appears on the left (an invitation that of course originates a response), clarifying and inflecting Derrida's "response" on the right.

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida PDF Author: Jacques de Ville
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136675574
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality presents a comprehensive account and understanding of Derrida’s approach to law and justice. Through a detailed reading of Derrida’s texts, Jacques de Ville contends that it is only by way of Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence, and specifically in relation to the texts of Husserl, Levinas, Freud and Heidegger - that the reasoning behind his elusive works on law and justice can be grasped. Through detailed readings of texts such as To speculate – on Freud, Adieu, Declarations of Independence, Before the Law, Cogito and the history of madness, Given Time, Force of Law and Specters of Marx, De Ville contends that there is a continuity in Derrida’s thinking, and rejects the idea of an ‘ethical turn’. Derrida is shown to be neither a postmodernist nor a political liberal, but a radical revolutionary. De Ville also controversially contends that justice in Derrida’s thinking must be radically distinguished from Levinas’s reflections on ‘the other’. It is the notion of absolute hospitality - which Derrida derives from Levinas, but radically transforms - that provides the basis of this argument. Justice must on De Ville’s reading be understood in terms of a demand of absolute hospitality which is imposed on both the individual and the collective subject. A much needed account of Derrida's influential approach to law, Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality will be an invaluable resource for those with an interest in legal theory, and for those with an interest in the ethics and politics of deconstruction.

The Gift of the Other

The Gift of the Other PDF Author: Andrew Shepherd
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 162032766X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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We live in an age of global capitalism and terror. In a climate of consumption and fear the unknown Other is regarded as a threat to our safety, a client to assist, or a competitor to be overcome in the struggle for scarce resources. And yet, the Christian Scriptures explicitly summon us to welcome strangers, to care for the widow and the orphan, and to build relationships with those distant from us. But how, in this world of hostility and commodification, do we practice hospitality? In The Gift of the Other, Andrew Shepherd engages deeply with the influential thought of French thinkers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, and argues that a true vision of hospitality is ultimately found not in postmodern philosophies but in the Christian narrative. The book offers a compelling Trinitarian account of the God of hospitality--a God of communion who "makes room" for otherness, who overcomes the hostility of the world though Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, and who through the work of the Spirit is forming a new community: the Church--a people of welcome.

Sites of Exposure

Sites of Exposure PDF Author: John Russon
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253029414
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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John Russon draws from a broad range of art and literature to show how philosophy speaks to the most basic and important questions in our everyday lives. In Sites of Exposure, Russon grapples with how personal experiences such as growing up and confronting death combine with broader issues such as political oppression, economic exploitation, and the destruction of the natural environment to make life meaningful. His is cutting-edge philosophical work, illuminated by original and rigorous thinking that relies on cross-cultural communication and engagement with the richness of human cultural history. These probing interpretations of the nature of phenomenology, the philosophy of art, history, and politics, are appropriate for students and scholars of philosophy at all levels.

Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas

Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas PDF Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804732758
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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This volume contains the speech given by Derrida at Emmanuel Levinas’s funeral on December 27, 1995, and his contribution to a colloquium organized to mark the first anniversary of Levinas’s death. In this book, Derrida extends his work on Levinas in previously unexplored directions via a radical rereading of Totality and Infinity and the lesser-known Talmudic writings.

On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness

On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness PDF Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134588240
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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One of the world's most famous philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores difficult questions in this important and engaging book. Is it still possible to uphold international hospitality and justice in the face of increasing nationalism and civil strife in so many countries? Drawing on examples of treatment of minority groups in Europe, he skilfully and accessibly probes the thinking that underlies much of the practice, and rhetoric, that informs cosmopolitanism. What have duties and rights to do with hospitality? Should hospitality be grounded on a private or public ethic, or even a religious one? This fascinating book will be illuminating reading for all.

Living Together:

Living Together: PDF Author: Elisabeth Weber
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823249921
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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For Jacques Derrida, the notions and experiences of 'community, ' 'living, ' and 'together' never ceased to harbour radical, in fact infinite interrogations. In this volume, the paradoxes, impossibilities, and singular chances that haunt the necessity of 'living together' are evoked in Derrida's essay 'Avowing--The Impossible' around which the collection is gathered.

The Conditions of Hospitality

The Conditions of Hospitality PDF Author: Thomas Claviez
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823251470
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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A collection of essays devoted to the concept of hospitality from different disciplinary perspectives such as philosophy, politics, anthropology, aesthetics, ethics, and translation studies.

Theory and Practice

Theory and Practice PDF Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226829359
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Now in paperback, nine lectures from Jacques Derrida that challenge the influential Marxist distinction between thinking and acting. Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of “theory and practice” was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential interpretation of Marx by Louis Althusser. Derrida’s many questions to Althusser and other thinkers aim at unsettling the distinction between thinking and acting. Derrida’s investigations set out from Marx’s “Theses on Feuerbach,” in particular the eleventh thesis, which has often been taken as a mantra for the “end of philosophy,” to be brought about by Marxist practice. Derrida argues, however, that Althusser has no such end in view and that his discourse remains resolutely philosophical, even as it promotes the theory/practice pair as primary values. This seminar also draws fascinating connections between Marxist thought and Heidegger and features Derrida’s signature reconsideration of the dichotomy between doing and thinking. This text, available for the first time in English, shows that Derrida was doing important work on Marx long before Specters of Marx. As with the other volumes in this series, it gives readers an unparalleled glimpse into Derrida’s thinking at its best—spontaneous, unpredictable, and groundbreaking.