The conditions of hospitality : ethics, politics, and aesthetics on the threshold of the possible / edited by Thomas Claviez.

Hospitality is a multi-faceted concept that has been received by, and worked into, various academic realms and disciplines, such as philosophy, politics, anthropology, aesthetics, ethics, and translation studies. The essays collected in this volume, by a range of international contributors, examine...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Other Authors: Claviez, Thomas (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "Taking Place" - Conditional/Unconditional Hospitality / Thomas Claviez
  • The Ethics of Hospitality. Hospitality - Under Compassion and Violence / Anne Dufourmantelle ; Transcending Transcendence, or : Transcendifferances : Limping toward a Radical Concept of Hospitality / Thomas Claviez ; Toward a Mutual Hospitality / Luce Irigaray
  • The Politics of Hospitality. To Open : Hospitality and Alienation / Pheng Cheah ; Frictions of Hospitality and the Promise of Cosmopolitanism / Thomas Hylland Eriksen ; Proximity and Paradox : Law and Politics in the New Europe / Bonnie Honig ; Conditions for Hospitality or Defence of Identity? : Writers in Need of Refuge - A Case of Denmark's "Muslim Relations" / Ulrik Pram Gad
  • The Aesthetics of Hospitality. Conviviality and Pilgrimage : Hospitality as Interruptive Practice / Mireille Rosello ; Hospitality and the Zombification of the Other / Nikos Papastergiadis ; The Art and Poetics of Translation as Hospitality / Paola Zaccaria.