The Conditions of Hospitality: Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible
Thomas Claviez (ed.)
The Conditions of Hospitality: Ethics, Politcs and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible
(New York: Fordham UP, 2013)
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“Globalization has brought us instant forms of communication and diverse networks of connectivity. But has it made us better neighbors to one another? Have we evolved new ethical and political forms of hospitality to accompany the crossing of borders, the subduing of national and regional sovereignties, as we take our first, faltering steps toward an international civil society? These essays raise questions fundamental to our political condition. But they do more than that. They make a compelling case for an aesthetic and ethical enhancement of our sense of political rights and responsibilities.”
(Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University)
“This volume does something new with hospitality, reanimating and redeploying it in ethical, political, and aesthetic directions. Its effect is prismatic: It brings together and then reflects, refracts, and redistributes hospitality across the intellectual spectrum of philosophy, political theory, and cultural studies.”
(William Robert, Syracuse University)
“A timely constellation of trenchant statements on one of the most ancient and most sacred human conventions. In an increasingly inhospitable world, this is an opportune and eloquent volume on hospitality as institution, as political act, and as ethical practice. An invaluable touchstone for interdisciplinary study of the subject.”
(Djelal Kadir, Pennsylvania State University)
Hospitality is a multifaceted 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 wide range of international contributors, examine how, in the wake of the work of Levinas and the late Derrida, this concept has entered into and transformed the thinking of these disciplines.
Contributors: Pheng Cheah, Thomas Claviez, Anne Dufourmantelle, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ulrik Pram Gad, Bonnie Honig, Luce Irigaray, Nikos Papastergiadis, Mireille Rosello, Paola Zaccaria.
CONTENTS
Thomas Claviez
“Introduction: ‘Taking Place’ - Conditional/Unconditional Hospitality”
THE ETHICS OF HOSPITALITY
Anne Dufourmantelle
“Hospitality - Under Compassion and Violence”
Thomas Claviez
“Transcending Transcendence, or: Transcendifferances: Limping Toward a Radical Concept of Hospitality”
Luce Irigary
“Toward a Mutual Hospitality”
THE POLITICS OF HOSPITALITY
Pheng Cheah
“To Open: Hospitality and Alienation”
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
“Frictions of Hospitality and the Promise of Cosmopolitanism”
Bonnie Honig
“Proximity and Paradox: Law and Politics in the New Europe”
Ulrik Pram Gad
“Conditions for Hospitality or Defence of Identity? Writers in Need of Refuge - A Case of Denmark’s ‘Muslim Relations’”
THE AESTHETICS OF HOSPITALITY
Mireille Rosello
“Conviviality and Pilgrimage: Hospitality as Interruptive Practice”
Nikos Papastergiadis
“Hospitality and the Zombification of the Other”
Paola Zaccaria
“The Art and Poetics of Translation as Hospitality”
NOTES
WORKS CITED
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS