Mediterranean drama: pragmatic, legal and moral aspects of hospitality
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2015
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Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu Wydział Nauk Społecznych, Instytut Filozofii UAM
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Abstract
Hospitality is „not a concept which lends itself to objective
knowledge,” Jacques Derrida assumes. His assumption „provokes”
and challenges European hospitability, not only in the Mediterranean
area in which „welcoming” and „ingratiating” (in Derrida’s
terms) forms of human conduct met together thousands years
ago, and an asylum seeker found hospitia. What is hospitality and
why philosophize about it today? The paper examines hospitality’s
pragmatic, customary, legal and moral aspects in, both, historical
and contemporary contexts.
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hospitality, potential and limits of hospitality, asylum, ius hospitia, cosmopolitanism, pragmatism, ethics, Kant, Derrida, Levinas
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Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2015, Tom 4, Nr 2, s. 144-162.