02404nam 2200565 a 450 991078438980332120200520144314.00-8166-9812-0(CKB)1000000000346665(EBL)310763(OCoLC)476096173(SSID)ssj0000173171(PQKBManifestationID)11161871(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000173171(PQKBWorkID)10162729(PQKB)10003687(OCoLC)170580724(MdBmJHUP)muse39226(Au-PeEL)EBL310763(CaPaEBR)ebr10180209(CaONFJC)MIL523177(OCoLC)437188542(MiAaPQ)EBC310763(EXLCZ)99100000000034666520060707d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe hostess[electronic resource] hospitality, femininity, and the expropriation of identity /Tracy McNultyMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20071 online resource (336 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4741-0 0-8166-4740-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-268) and index.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 morcelé -- The other jouissance, a gay sçavoir: feminine hospitality and the ethics of psychoanalysis.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.HospitalityHospitality.177/.1McNulty Tracy1490996MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784389803321The hostess3712520UNINA