Hospitality Volume I – Jacques Derrida Pascale – Anne Brault

All the examples that we have taken so far, from Benveniste, Sophocles, Plato, Klossowski, etc., highlighted in the structure of the right to hospitality and the relationship to the foreigner, as guest or enemy, the predominance of a model that is at the [172] same time familial, paternal, marital, and phallogocentric.

It is the familial despot, the father, husband, and boss, spouse and master of this house who makes and represents the laws of hospitality, who submits to them in order to submit others to them in this violence of the power of hospitality, this violence of ipseity that we have been analyzing for several weeks. At a certain moment, I also said that the problem of hospitality was coextensive with the ethical problem, first with the problem of ethos as place of residence, habitation, house, hearth, family, at-home.

We must now examine those situations where not only is hospitality coextensive with ethics but where it may seem that certain people, as has been said, place the law of hospitality above morality or a certain “ethics.” To begin to examine this difficult question, I will evoke the well-known story of Lot and his daughters. We will see that this history is not foreign to the tradition of the example that Kant cites in “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Philanthropy,” following Saint Augustine in his books on lying (ought one to deliver one’s guests to murderers or to lie to them to save these guests for whom one feels oneself responsible?).

You know the story; I will simply recall it in a few words. It is the moment in Genesis (XIX, 1ff.)

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For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637. Published 2023 Printed in the United States of America 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82801-5 (cloth) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82802-2 (e-book) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226828022.001.0001 Originally published in French as Hospitalité. Volume I. Séminaire (1995–1996), © Éditions du Seuil, 2021. Session 4 was published in French as “Question d’étranger : venue de l’étranger” in De l’hospitalité by Jacques Derrida and Anne Dufourmantelle, © Calmann-Lévy, 1997, pp. 11–69.

Session 5 was published in French as “Pas d’hospitalité” in De l’hospitalité by Jacques Derrida and Anne Dufourmantelle, © Calmann-Lévy, 1997, pp. 71–137. Stanford University Press publishes De l’hospitalité in English as Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond, trans. Rachel Bowlby, © 2000 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. New translations of “Question d’étranger : venue de l’étranger” and “Pas d’hospitalité” by E. S. Burt included here with permission of Stanford University Press.

Appendix I was published in French in Cosmopolites de tous les pays, encore un effort! © Éditions Galilée, 1997. © Facsimiles courtesy of Princeton University. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Derrida, Jacques, author. | Brault, Pascale-Anne, editor. | Kamuf, Peggy, 1947–, editor. | Burt, E. S., translator. | Derrida, Jacques. Works. Selections. English. 2009. Peggy Kamuf ; translated by E. S. Burt. Title: Hospitality / Jacques Derrida ; edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf ; translated by E. S.

Burt. Description: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023– | Series: The seminars of Jacques Derrida | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2023007540 | ISBN 9780226828015 (cloth) | ISBN 9780226828022 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Other (Philosophy) | Other minds (Theory of knowledge) Classification: LCC B2430.D482 E5 2023 | DDC 121/.2—dc23/eng/20230420 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023007540 This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).

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