MARIANA DI STELLA PIAZZOLLA

By presenting the notion of hospitality marked by sexual difference, the non-figure of the weeping blind woman reveals herself as an example of unconditional hospitality in the work of Derrida. Preserving a relationship with the conditionality of welcome, its trace must return haunting – not only, but also – empirical women. Derrida provides two readings for Levinasian ethics of welcome, which he named the trace of the feminine and women as androcentric hyperbole and feminist one, respectively. These names were brought to point an ethics emancipated from ontology, in which sexual difference occupies a pre-ethical non-place. Anteriority whose precedence brings a question about time-space beyond the interpretation that seeks to make visible and ensure the meaning of work for the activities carried out by women in hospitality to Other. Articulating two readings is the general objective of this research. The aims is to show that the inseparability between them depends on an iterability relationship between two determined terms of an aporia, even if undecidables, which replace each other without identifying themselves, as opposed to the identifying difference of the Hegelian dialectic.