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Diane Davis. Host and Hostage

Title:Diane Davis. Host and Hostage
Date:06/03/2011Length:1:02:44
Diane Davis, rhetorician and post-structuralist thinker, continues with her course on the thought of Jacques Derrida. Professor Davis delivers a closer reading of the first part of Derrida's Of Hospitality. In her lecture, Professor Davis covers justice, the law and laws of hospitality, Emmanuel Levinas, Plato's Sophist, the host, the hostage, the guest, the foreigner, the question of being, the third party, and the infamous story of Lot and his daughters. This is the sixth lecture of Professor Davis's 2011 course on Jacques Derrida. European Graduate School EGS