Hospitality & Criticism

April 3, 2009 in Reading, links, quotations
Tags: Alex Thomson, Derrida, Hospitality, Intellectual inheritance, Matthias Fritsch, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness, reception, Specters of Marx

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 [...]