{"product_id":"threshold-phenomena-derrida-and-the-question-of-hospitality-hardback-9781531507107","title":"Threshold Phenomena; Derrida and the Question of Hospitality (Hardback) 9781531507107","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThreshold Phenomena\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDerrida and the Question of Hospitality\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Naas (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531507107\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.534 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThreshold Phenomena \u003c\/i\u003ereexamines Jacques Derrida's thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published seminars on the same topic. The book follows Derrida's rereading of several central figures and texts on hospitality (Sophocles' \u003ci\u003eOedipus at Colonus\u003c\/i\u003e, Kant's \u003ci\u003ePerpetual Peace\u003c\/i\u003e, Levinas's \u003ci\u003eTotality and Infinity\u003c\/i\u003e) and his attempt to rethink questions surrounding not only private but also public hospitality in the form of immigration law, the contemporary treatment of migrants or stateless peoples, and the establishment of cities of asylum.\u003cbr\u003e Naas develops many of the central themes of Derrida's seminar—the relationship between hospitality and teletechnology (telephone, internet, cyberspace, etc.), the role of fatherlands and mother tongues in hospitality, questions of purity, immunity, and xenophobia, and the possibility of extending hospitality beyond the human—to animals, plants, gods, and clones. Reframing Derrida's approach to ethics, Naas reconsiders the relationship between hospitality and deconstruction, concluding that hospitality is not merely a theme to be treated by deconstruction but one of the best ways of describing its work. \u003cbr\u003e Naas's book turns around a figure that Derrida himself returns to several times throughout the seminar: the \u003ci\u003ethreshold\u003c\/i\u003e—a figure of hospitality par excellence, but also, in his seminars, another name for what Derrida in the 1960s began calling \u003ci\u003edifférance\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThreshold Phenomena\u003c\/i\u003e concludes that Derrida's seminar on hospitality is one of the best introductions we have to Derrida's work in general and one of the surest signs of its continuing relevance, a seminar that is at once fascinating and engaging in its own right and necessary for analyzing today's increasingly nationalistic and xenophobic political climate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida\u003c\/i\u003e   ix\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Fist Bumps and Pandemic Bubbles   1 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eI. Preliminaries: Questions on the Threshold \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003ci\u003eHodos\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOdos\u003c\/i\u003e (Homeric Hospitality 1)   17\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e. Translating Hospitality   23\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e. Masters of the House: Hospitality and Sovereignty   31\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003ci\u003eXenos\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eXenia\u003c\/i\u003e (Homeric Hospitality 2)   39\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e. On Dying Abroad: Oedipus (on the Threshold) at Colonus   44\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6\u003c\/b\u003e. Plato's \u003ci\u003eXenoi\u003c\/i\u003e   53 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eII. The \"Concept\" of Hospitality \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7\u003c\/b\u003e. Stranger Things   63\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8\u003c\/b\u003e. Conditional and Unconditional Hospitality   67\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9\u003c\/b\u003e. Unconditional and Conditional Hospitality   79\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10\u003c\/b\u003e. The Art or Poetics of Hospitality   97\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e11\u003c\/b\u003e. But Why So Much Kant?   104\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e12\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003ci\u003eXenos\u003c\/i\u003e Paradox: Hospitality and Autoimmunity   113\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIII. The Wall, the Door, the Threshold, the Hotspot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e13\u003c\/b\u003e. Dirty Foreigners: The Question of Purity   127\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e14\u003c\/b\u003e. Homing Devices: Teletechnology and the Question of Private Space   133\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e15\u003c\/b\u003e. Phantasms of Fatherlands and Mother Tongues   145\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e16\u003c\/b\u003e. Phantasms of Mother Tongues and Mobile Phones   152\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e17\u003c\/b\u003e. On Cosmopolitanism and Cities of Refuge   164\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e18\u003c\/b\u003e. Beyond Anthropo- Hospitality: Plants, Animals, Gods, and Clones   177 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e: From Threshold to Threshold— Derrida's \u003ci\u003eDémarche\u003c\/i\u003e   199\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   207\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAppendix: Two Regimes of Hospitality (Chart)\u003c\/i\u003e   209 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   211 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   233\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619266851096,"sku":"9781531507107","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/threshold-phenomena-derrida-and-the-question-of-hospitality-hardback-9781531507107","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}