Hostipitality

Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 3-18

  Derrida, Jacques ^a  

^a Forbes Morlock   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61249468539     PISSN: 0969725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09697250020034706     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Originally published as "Hostipitalité," Cogito 85 (1999, special issue Pera Peras Poros, ed. Ferda Keskin and Önay Sözer): 17-44. [Tr.]
2. Immanuel Kant, Kant's Political Writings, ed. Hans Reiss (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1970). German interpolations in square brackets are Derrida's. Those in French and English have been added by the translators. [Tr.]
3. "Host" and "guest" can both translate "hôte." The ambivalence of the French is of course important for Derrida. Occasionally, he resorts to English to specify the sense of "hôte" as either "host" or "guest." Many such questions and passages - including some of those from Kant, Klossowski, Levinas, and Benveniste - are also and differently broached in "A Word of Welcome," Adieu: To Emmanuel Levinas, trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999). See pages 15-123, 135-52.
4. A number of the same topics are extended in Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond, trans. Rachel Bowlby (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000). [Tr.]
5. Derrida is referring to Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, trans. Mary Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991) 261-64. [Tr.]
6. The Politics of Friendship, trans. George Collins (London: Verso, 1997) 257. The black swan appears in the middle of a discussion of Kant on friendship. Kant's own discussion can be found in the section of The Metaphysics of Morals cited above. [Tr.]
7. The opening and organizing line of Politics of Friendship. [Tr.]
8. See "Khôra," trans. Ian McLeod, On the Name, ed. Thomas Dutoit (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995) 87-127, 146-50. [Tr.]
9. Pierre Klossowski, Roberte Ce Soir and The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, trans. Austryn Wainhouse (London: Calder and Boyars, 1971). [Tr.]
10. Emmanuel Levinas, Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, trans. Alphonso Lingis (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1981) 117. [Tr.]
11. "La substitution," Revue Philosophique de Louvain 66 (août 1968): 500, rpt in Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974) 145 [Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence 114], where the sentence "The word 'I' would answer for everything and everyone" becomes "The word 'I' means 'here I am,' answering for everything and for everyone." A formula resounds two pages earlier which we clearly must analyze in its context and in the logic of what Levinas calls "substitution," the subject as the subject of substitution: "A subject is a hostage" (112). Then there is Sygne de Coufontaine in Claudel's L'Otage [The Hostage], which we should read together, as we should L'Échange [The Exchange].
12. On l'arrivant, see also Aporias, trans. Thomas Dutoit (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1993) 33-35. [Tr.]
13. Martin Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking?, trans. Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray (New York: Harper & Row, 1968) 4. [Tr.]
14. [The French translation to which Derrida refers is:] Qu'appelle-t-on penser, trans. J. Granel (Paris: PUF, 1959) 228-30.
15. Émile Benveniste, Indo-European Language and Society, trans. Elizabeth Palmer (London: Faber, 1973) 72.
16. Here Derrida begins to redeem his promise elsewhere to return to this "magnificent chapter" in Benveniste "in a more problematic and troubled way": Monolingualism of the Other; or, The Prosthesis of Origin, trans. Patrick Mensah (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998) 77. [Tr.]
17. Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne, trans. M. A. Screech (London: Penguin, 1991) Book III, chapter 9, 1113.