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

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Claviez, Thomas.

Series:

• Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Perspectives in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Hospitality.
• Entertaining.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Ethics, politics, and aesthetics on the threshold of the possible

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays devoted to the concept of hospitality from different disciplinary perspectives such as philosophy, politics, anthropology, aesthetics, ethics, and translation studies.

Contents:

• ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""The Ethics of Hospitality""; ""Hospitality Under Compassion and Violence""; ""Transcending Transcendence, or: Transcendifferances""; ""Toward a Mutual Hospitality""; ""The Politics of Hospitality""; ""To Open""; ""Frictions of Hospitality and the Promise of Cosmopolitanism""; ""Proximity and Paradox""; ""Conditions for Hospitality or Defense of Identity?""; ""Appendix""; ""The Aesthetics of Hospitality""; ""Conviviality and Pilgrimage""; ""Hospitality and the Zombification of the Other""; ""The Art and Poetics of Translation as Hospitality""; ""Notes""
• ""Works Cited""""Contributors""; ""Perspectives in Continental Philosophy""

Notes:

• Proceedings of a conference held in Sept. 2008 in Stavanger, Norway.
• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 0-8232-5279-5
• 0-8232-5149-7

OCLC:

847623357

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32062 hdl