Re-reading: Of Hospitality. Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond

Stronks, Martijn

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“…Here I try to understand and apply Derrida's thinking to continued everyday practice, since many writers have already thoroughly defended Mauss's interpretation of ethnographic cases against Derrida (Champetier 2001;Stronks 2008;Zaccaria 2013;Hénaff 2019). On the other hand, these writers, except for Hénaff, have also interpreted Derrida's treatise as belonging to the exclusive realm of metaphysics.…”

Section: The Spontaneously Negotiated Meaning Of Hospitalitymentioning

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Practicing Hospitality: Ideas of Recognition and Proper Arrival among Refugees and Refugee Supporters in a German City

Kim¹

2020

AJP

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During the 2015 refugee crisis, hospitality for migrants was frequently invoked as a European value, in both secular and religious contexts. Hospitality as a valued principle varies from actual instances of hospitality, which involve conditions and moral expectations. This article examines expectations of morality in humanitarian church organizations' responses to the refugee crisis, based on a case study of an open café project for refugees in a German metropolitan city. Notions of hosting, being a guest, choosing a home, arrival, and integration play significant roles in considerations about the organization for this regular event. The line between volunteers and visitors becomes increasingly blurred with time, but moral discourses focusing on language, translation, self-formation, and personhood recur and reinforce the distinction of host and guest.

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Practicing Hospitality: Ideas of Recognition and Proper Arrival among Refugees and Refugee Supporters in a German City

Kim¹

2020

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Homofaunie: Non-human Tonalities of Listening in Derrida and Cixous

Waltham-Smith

2021

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In L’animal que donc je suis Jacques Derrida suggests that the question of what would be proper to the animal should ‘change tune’. I read this extraordinary passage, in which Derrida calls for us to lend an ear to an ‘unheard-of music’ that neither emancipates the non-human nor condemns it to inarticulate noise, in conjunction with the nexus of animality, telephony and the cri de la littérature that unfolds in Hélène Cixous’s writing, exploring the significant role assumed by the sonorous in these descriptions of non-human life. For Cixous, the telephonic power of near-instantaneous substitution and of prostheticity is inseparable from the sounds produced by the coterie of animals that populate the writings of these two authors. What is intriguing is that this bestiary is almost always said with a certain homonymy or homophony. Hence this article traces what I dub an ‘homofaunie’ echoing Cixous’s series of puns and neologisms such as ‘(t)elefaun’ and ‘(t)elephantasy’ that capture Derrida’s attention. The article asks what is at stake for theorizing non-human life – not just animal but also plant and so-called inanimate life – if the mode of questioning is to be redirected by a specifically aural attunement in which listening itself is retuned under the guidance of untranslatable homophony.

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Re-reading: Of Hospitality. Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond

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Practicing Hospitality: Ideas of Recognition and Proper Arrival among Refugees and Refugee Supporters in a German City

Practicing Hospitality: Ideas of Recognition and Proper Arrival among Refugees and Refugee Supporters in a German City

Homofaunie: Non-human Tonalities of Listening in Derrida and Cixous

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