Mediterranean drama: pragmatic, legal and moral aspects of hospitality

• Authors: Ewa Nowak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 144-162

Dates

published

2015-12-15

Contributors

author

Ewa Nowak

• Associate Professor Dr. habil. Ewa Nowak, Chair of Ethics, Institute of Philosophy at UAM Poznań (Poland)

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5722-7711

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/fped.2015.4.2.20