Hospitality, Volume I

Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others.

Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacques Derrida at the ﾉcole des hautes 騁udes en sciences sociales in Paris between 1995 and 1997. In these lectures, Derrida asks a series of related questions about responsibility and "the foreigner" How do we welcome or turn away the foreigner? What does the idea of the foreigner reveal about kinship and the state, particularly in relation to friendship, citizenship, migration, asylum, assimilation, and xenophobia? Derrida approaches these questions through readings of several classical texts as well as modern texts by Heidegger, Arendt, Camus, and others. Central to his project is a rigorous distinction between conventional, finite hospitality, with its many conditions, and the aspirational idea of hospitality as something offered unconditionally to the stranger. This volume collects the first year of the seminar.

Author: Jacques Derrida
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 11/09/2023
Series: Seminars of Jacques Derrida
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780226828015