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“You’re probably surprised to find us so inhospitable,” said the man, “but hospitality isn’t a custom here, and we don’t need any visitors.”1
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F. Kafka (2009), The Castle, trans. Anthea Bell, with an introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson (Oxford: Oxford University Press), p. 15.
J. Derrida (2005), “The Principle of Hospitality,” in Paper Machine, trans. Rachel Bowlby (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press), p. 66.
J. Derrida (2001), “Derelictions of the Right to Justice (But what are the ‘sans-papier’ lacking?), in Negotiations. Interventions and Interviews 1971–2001, edited, trans., and with an introduction by Elizabeth Rottenberg, (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press), p. 133.
Derrida develops the question of hospitality mostly in the following texts: (1) J. Derrida (2000), Of Hospitality, trans. R. Bowlby (Stanford: Stanford University Press); (2) J. Derrida (1999), Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas, trans. P.-A. Brault & M. Naas (Stanford: Stanford University Press); (3) J. Derrida (1999), “Hospitality, Justice and Responsibility: A Dialogue with Jacques Derrida,” in Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy, ed. R. Kearney, M. Dooley (London: Routledge), pp. 65–83; (4) J. Derrida (1999), Autour de Jacques Derrida. Manifeste pour l’hospitalité, ed. M. Seffahi (Paris: Paroles l’Aube); (5) J. Derrida (2000), “Hospitality,” Angelaki, 5 (3), pp. 3–18. (6) J. Derrida (2005), “The Principle of Hospitality,” in Paper Machine, trans. Rachel Bowlby, (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press), pp. 66–69; and (7) J. Derrida (2002), “Hospitality,” in Acts of Religion, edited and with an introduction by Gil Anidjar (New York, London: Routledge), pp. 358–420.
I. Kant (1988), “Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch,” in L. W. Beck (eds), Kant. Selections (London: Collier Macmillan Publishers), p. 439.
J. D. Caputo (1997), Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (NY: Fordham University Press), p. 111.
Jacques Derrida & Bernard Stiegler (2002), Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews, trans. Jennifer Bajorek (Oxford: Polity Press), p. 81.
J. Derrida (2005), “As If it were Possible, ‘Within Such Limits,’” in Paper Machine, trans. Rachel Bowlby (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press), p. 90.
J. Derrida (1988), “Signature Event Context,” in Limited Inc. (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press), p. 18.
J. Derrida (2001), “The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible,” in J. Caputo, M. Dooley, & M. Scanlon (eds), Questioning God (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), p. 16.
J. Derrida (2001), “On Forgiveness: A Roundtable Discussion with Jacques Derrida,” in J. Caputo, M. Dooley, & M. Scanlon (eds), Questioning God (Bloominghton & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press), p. 48.
D. Wood (1997), “Responsibility Reinscribed (and How),” in Jonathon Dronsfield & Nick Midgley (eds), Responsibilities of Deconstruction, PLI Warwick Journal of Philosophy 6, p. 110.
J. Derrida (1999), “Hospitality, Justice and Responsibility: A Dialogue with Jacques Derrida,” pp. 70–71.
Jacques Derrida (1993), The Gift of Death, trans. David Wills (Chicago: Chicago University Press), p. 68.
Martin Hägglund (2008), Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press), p. 103.
J. Derrida & B. Stiegler (2002), Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews, p. 81.
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Kakoliris, G. (2015). Jacques Derrida on the Ethics of Hospitality. In: Imafidon, E. (eds) The Ethics of Subjectivity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472427_9
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