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The hostess : hospitality, femininity, and the expropriation of identity / Tracy McNulty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNulty, Tracy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospitality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Hostess, Tracy McNulty asks, What are the implications for personhood of sharing a person-a wife or daughter-as an act of hospitality? Combining critical readings of the Bible and Pierre Klossowski's trilogy The Laws of Hospitality, the writings of Kant and Nietzsche, and the work of Freud and Lacan, she contends hospitality involves the boundary between the proper and the improper.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the uncanny guest
- Israel, divine hostess
- Cosmopolitan hospitality and secular ethics: Kant today
- Under the sign of the hostess: Pierre Klossowski's laws of hospitality
- Hospitality after the death of God
- Welcoming Dionysus, or, The subject as corps morcele
- The other jouissance, a gay scavoir: feminine hospitality and the ethics of psychoanalysis.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9812-0
- OCLC:
- 476096173
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