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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811575203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8232-5149-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Perspectives in continental philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

ClaviezThomas

Disciplina

177/.1

Soggetti

Hospitality

Entertaining

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings of a conference held in Sept. 2008 in Stavanger, Norway.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

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