Derrida and Hospitality : Theory and Practice

Still, Judith

ISBN 10: 0748669639 / ISBN 13: 9780748669639

Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Derrida and Hospitality : Theory and Practice
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748669639
• ISBN 13: 9780748669639
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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 the full breadth of fields that Derrida's work on hospitality influenced, Still thinks through relationships between individuals and the community or state. Judith Still also follows the thread of sexual difference in Derrida's writing to shed light on his exploration of the complex and delicate, strange yet familiar, political and ethical dilemmas of how to be those impossible things: a good host and a good guest.

About the Author

Judith Still is Professor of French and Critical Theory and Head of the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Justice and Differences in the Works of Rousseau (CUP, 1993), Feminine Economies: Thinking against the Market in the Enlightenment and the Late Twentieth Century (MUP, 1997), Derrida and Hospitality (EUP, 2010, Gapper Prize winner 2011) and Enlightenment Hospitality (Voltaire Foundation, 2011).