Name: Of Hospitality (Cultural Memory in the Present)
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Author: Jacques Derrida
ISBN: 9780804734066

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Of Hospitality (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jacques Derrida

Anne Dufourmantelle

Translated by

Rachel Bowlby

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

0804734062

ISBN13

9780804734066

Edition No.

Synopsis "Of Hospitality (Cultural Memory in the Present) "

These two lectures by Jacques Derrida, "Foreigner Question" and "Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality," derive from a series of seminars on "hospitality" conducted by Derrida in Paris, January 1996. His seminars, in France and in America, have become something of an institution over the years, the place where he presents the ongoing evolution of his thought in a remarkable combination of thoroughly mapped-out positions, sketches of new material, and exchanges with students and interlocutors. As has become a pattern in Derrida's recent work, the form of this presentation is a self-conscious enactment of its content. The book consists of two texts on facing pages. "Invitation" by Anne Dufourmantelle appears on the left (an invitation that of course originates in a response), clarifying and inflecting Derrida's "response" on the right. The interaction between them not only enacts the "hospitality" under discussion, but preserves something of the rhythms of teaching. The volume also characteristically combines careful readings of canonical texts and philosophical topics with attention to the most salient events in the contemporary world, using "hospitality" as a means of rethinking a range of political and ethical situations. "Hospitality" is viewed as a question of what arrives at the borders, in the initial surprise of contact with an other, a stranger, a foreigner. For example, Antigone is revisited in light of the question of impossible mourning; Oedipus at Colonus is read via concerns that also apply to teletechnology; the trial of Socrates is brought into conjunction with the televised funeral of François Mitterrand.

Jacques Derrida

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Jacques Derrida nació el 15 de julio de 1930 en El Biar, Argelia, y murió el 8 de octubre de 2004 en París, Francia. Proveniente de una familia judía sefardí en el contexto del colonialismo francés, su infancia estuvo marcada por acontecimientos que influirían en su sensibilidad filosófica: entre ellos, la experiencia de ser excluido de su liceo en 1942 debido a decretos antijudíos del régimen de Vichy. Posteriormente se trasladó a París para formarse en filosofía, y tras ejercer la enseñanza en la Sorbona y en la École Normale Supérieure, se consolidó como uno de los más influyentes filósofos del siglo XX.

Derrida es sobretodo conocido por haber desarrollado la filosofía de la deconstrucción, un método crítico que analiza cómo los textos, discursos o sistemas de pensamiento contienen oposiciones jerárquicas implícitas (como presencia/ausencia, palabra/escritura, naturaleza/cultura) y muestra cómo esas oposiciones pueden desplazarse o derrumbarse. Su trabajo influyó profundamente en áreas como filosofía, teoría literaria, lingüística, derecho, arquitectura y estudios culturales, sirviendo para cuestionar los fundamentos de la metafísica occidental.

Entre sus obras más destacadas se encuentran Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967) y Margins of Philosophy (1972). A lo largo de su vida académica, abordó temas como la escritura, la diferencia, la presencia, la identidad, la justicia, la memoria y la alteridad. Su estilo, complejo y frecuentemente polémico, generó tanto adhesiones como críticas intensas. Derrida deja un legado que sigue vivo en múltiples disciplinas, movilizando el pensamiento en torno a la apertura, el otro y el procedimiento crítico.

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Anne Dufourmantelle

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Anne Dufourmantelle (1964–2017) was a French philosopher and psychoanalyst, educated at Brown University and earned a PhD in philosophy from the Sorbonne. She practiced psychoanalysis, taught at the European Graduate School, and collaborated with the newspaper Libération. Her thought addressed themes such as risk, sweetness, secrecy, and love, integrating philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature.

Among her most notable works are In Praise of Risk (2011), Power of Sweetness (2013), In Case of Love: Psychopathology of Love Life (2012), and Intelligence of Dreams (2012). She also co-wrote On Hospitality (1997) with Jacques Derrida. In 1998, she received the Raymond de Boyer de Sainte-Suzanne prize from the French Academy for The Prophetic Vocation of Philosophy. She tragically died in 2017 while trying to rescue two children on a beach near Saint-Tropez.

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