Hospitality & Criticism
A suggestion by one of my supervisors sent me back to Derrida’s little essay on cosmopolitanism (an address delivered in 1996 to the International Parliament of Writers). In it Derrida, briefly, schematically, but very lucidly, draws out his thinking on hospitality with respect to the European tradition of cosmopolitanism.
I happened to have a copy of [...]
Posted at 8:56 am on April 3, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Reading, links, quotations | Tagged: Alex Thomson, Derrida, Hospitality, Intellectual inheritance, Matthias Fritsch, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness, reception, Specters of Marx | read on
To speculate
The distinction between critical and speculative philosophy of history (by Walsh) sent me to the dictionary, tracing the history of the word speculative. Via French from Latin, the word is – obviously enough – etymologically tied to sight. Just like theory. Speculari, to spy out, specula, a look out, a watch tower. In the 17th C. [...]
Posted at 12:17 pm on March 31, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: concepts, musings | Tagged: etymologies, sight, speculation, theory | read on
