Convivencia

As one pos­sible horizon for our con­ver­sation, Hussein Fancy’s rereading of the notion of con­vivencia dis­lodges it from the binary aca­demic dis­course into which it has become locked since the bitter debates between Américo Castro and Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz over Spain’s identity in relation to its medieval Iberian past.

“O my friends, there is no friend.”((Derrida uses this aphorism mis­at­tributed to Aris­totle by Mon­taigne.  See Jacques Derrida, Pol­itics of Friendship, trans.