Derrida and hospitality : theory and practice /

Judith Still sets Derrida's work in a series of contexts in a series of contexts including the socio-political history of France, especially in relation to Algeria, and his relationship to other writers, most importantly Hélène Cixous and Emmanuel Levinas: key thinkers of hospitality. Working across...

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Autor principal: Still, Judith 1958-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Edimburgo Edinburgh University Press 2010
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  • 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.