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Scholarship March 29, 2017

“Hospitable Gestures in the University Lecture: Analysing Derrida‚Äôs Pedagogy”

The Wabash Center

Author
Ruitenberg, Claudia
Publisher
Journal of the Philosophy of Education. Vol. 45, No. 1. 149-164
Based on archival research, this article analyses the pedagogical gestures in Derrida’s (largely unpublished) lectures on hospitality (1995/96), with particular attention to the enactment of hospitality in these gestures. The motivation for this analysis is twofold. First, since the large-group university lecture has been widely critiqued as a pedagogical model, the article seeks to retrieve what may be of worth in the form of the lecture. Second, it is relevant to analyze the pedagogy of lectures that address the topic of hospitality, as there would be a performative contradiction in teaching inhospitably about hospitality.