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This volume contains the speech given by Derrida at Emmanuel Levinas's funeral on December 27, 1995, and his contribution to a colloquium organized to mark the first anniversary of Levinas's death. For both thinkers, the word __adieu__ names a fundamental characteristic of human being: the salutation or benediction prior to all constative language (in certain circumstances, one can say __adieu__ at the moment of meeting) and that given at the moment of separation, sometimes forever, as at the moment of death, it is also the __a-dieu__, for God or to God before and in any relation to the other. In this book, Derrida extends his work on Levinas in previously unexplored directions via a radical rereading of __Totality and Infinity__ and other texts, including the lesser-known talmudic readings. He argues that Levinas, especially in __Totality and Infinity,__ bequeaths to us an immense treatise of hospitality,” a meditation on the welcome offered to the other. The conjunction of an ethics of pure prescription with the idea of an infinite and absolute hospitality confronts us with the most pressing political, juridical, and institutional concerns of our time. What, then, is an ethics a

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Author

Jacques Derrida

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804732758

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, European & American Philosophy