Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction to the Question of Hospitality: Ethics and Politics; 2. Patriarchs and their Women, Some Inaugural Intertexts of Hospitality: The Odyssey, Abraham, Lot and the Levite of Ephraim; 3. Friendship and Sexual difference: Hospitality from Brotherhood to Motherhood and Beyond; 4. Names and the Other - (Not) Asking for a Name, Naming, Calling by Name in Tales of Algerians; 5. The Dangers of Hospitality: the French State, Cultural Difference and Gods; 6. Animals and What Is Human; 7. Concluding Around Hospitality; Bibliography; Index.
Judith Still is Chair of French and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham.
This impressive book expertly welcomes the reader into the difficulties of the question of hospitality. While interpreting work on this topic by Derrida and Levinas, Cixous and Irigaray, Still also opens new doors onto issues in feminism and post-colonialism. She refers to telling examples in contemporary politics, and unfailingly reflects on the way her own work is performatively implicated in the structures of hospitality she is drawing out. -- Geoffrey Bennington, Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought, Emory University This impressive book expertly welcomes the reader into the difficulties of the question of hospitality. While interpreting work on this topic by Derrida and Levinas, Cixous and Irigaray, Still also opens new doors onto issues in feminism and post-colonialism. She refers to telling examples in contemporary politics, and unfailingly reflects on the way her own work is performatively implicated in the structures of hospitality she is drawing out.
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