Posts Tagged ‘Matthias Fritsch’
The Aussie dollar at the moment is on rather good terms with the UK pound and the US$, so I’ve splashed out for quite a few books. Recently arrived are Roudinesco’s Philosophy in Turbulent Times, and Matthias Fritsch’s The Promise of Memory. Now, if only I can find time amidst a new baby, a research [...]
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 [...]
