Full Description
Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others.
Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études 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.
Contents
Foreword to the English Edition
General Introduction to the French Edition
Editors' Note
Translator's Note
First Session
Appendix 1
Second Session
Third Session
Fourth Session
Appendix 2
Fifth Session
Discussion Session
Sixth Session
Seventh Session
Eighth Session
Ninth Session
Annex 1—Session of the Closed Seminar
Annex 2—Session of the Closed Seminar
Index of Proper Names
