| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 294 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-282) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction to the question of hospitality : ethics and politics -- Patriarchs and their women, some inaugural intertexts of hospitality : the Odyssey, Abraham, Lot and the Levite of Ephraim -- Friendship and sexual difference : hospitality from brotherhood to motherhood and beyond -- Frenchalgeria, (not) asking for a name, naming, calling by name in tales of Algerians -- The dangers of hospitality : the French state, cultural difference and gods -- Animals and what is human -- Concluding around hospitality. |
| Summary |
This text is a full-length study of hospitality in the writings of Jacques Derrida. Hospitality is critically important in Derrida's writings, and his work in this field has been influential across a range of disciplines from geography politics and sociology to literary studies and philosophy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Derrida, Jacques -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Derrida, Jacques. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Derrida, Jacques. |
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Derrida, Jacques, 1930-2004. |
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Hospitality -- Philosophy.
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Hospitality. |
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Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Still, Judith, 1958- Derrida and hospitality. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010 9780748640270 (OCoLC)651077999 |
| ISBN |
9780748644506 (electronic book) |
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0748644504 (electronic book) |
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9780748640270 (hardback) |
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0748640274 (hardback) |
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