Derrida and hospitality : theory and practice / Judith Still.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Still, Judith, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques--Criticism and interpretation.

Derrida, Jacques.

Hospitality--Philosophy.

Hospitality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Derrida & Hospitality

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-7178-1

1-283-02109-9

9786613021090

0-7486-4450-4

OCLC:

700706413