Hospitality, Volume II

Jacques Derrida's "Hospitality" explores the ramifications of what we owe to others, including responsibility, the foreigner, kinship, the state, friendship, citizenship, migration, asylum, assimilation, and xenophobia. It distinguishes between conventional hospitality and the aspirational idea of unconditional hospitality to the stranger.

Format: Hardback
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 06 May 2024
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Jacques Derrida's "Hospitality" explores the implications of our obligations to others. This two-year seminar series, delivered by Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris between 1995 and 1997, delves into questions of responsibility and the foreigner. Derrida examines how we welcome or reject the foreigner, and what the concept of the foreigner reveals about kinship, the state, friendship, citizenship, migration, asylum, assimilation, and xenophobia. The seminar distinguishes between conventional, finite hospitality and the ideal of unconditional hospitality offered to the stranger. This volume collects the second year of the seminar, focusing on an Islamic problematic of hospitality, the relevance of forgiveness, and the work of Emmanuel Levinas.

Weight: 513g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780226831305