you gotta be f* kidding me ..

July 17th, 2008

I am reading the following:

“As though the foreigner were being-in-question, the very question of being-in-question, the question-being or being-in-question of the question. But also the one who, putting the first question, puts me in question.”

Found on page 3 of On Hospitality by Jacques Derrida (who else), 2000. Published by Stanford University Press.

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One Response

  1. wendy

    i remember having to slave through ‘of hospitality’ last year… “Alors qui êtes-vous?” :)

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