Derrida and hospitality: theory and practice
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Main Author: Still, Judith (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press c2010
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-282) and index
Introduction to the question of hospitality : ethics and politics -- Patriarchs and their women, some inaugural intertexts of hospitality : the Odyssey, Abraham, Lot and the Levite of Ephraim -- Friendship and sexual difference : hospitality from brotherhood to motherhood and beyond -- Frenchalgeria, (not) asking for a name, naming, calling by name in tales of Algerians -- The dangers of hospitality : the French state, cultural difference and gods -- Animals and what is human -- Concluding around hospitality
This text is a full-length study of hospitality in the writings of Jacques Derrida. Hospitality is critically important in Derrida's writings, and his work in this field has been influential across a range of disciplines from geography politics and sociology to literary studies and philosophy
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 294 p.)
ISBN:0748644504
9780748644506

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