Thinking about Hospitality, with Derrida, Kant, and the Balga Bedouin
While doing research on hospitality in Jordan, I began to notice odd affinities between Bedouin understandings of this concept and certain trends in metropolitan political philosophy. Why, I wondered, does Derrida sound like a Bedouin when he writes about hospitality? What are "Arab Bedouin&quo...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Anthropos. - Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. - 103(2008), 2, Seite 405-421 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2008
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Anthropos |
| Schlagworte: | Jordan hospitality Bedouin Derrida Kant political theory oral history Behavioral sciences Arts Political science |
| Zusammenfassung: | While doing research on hospitality in Jordan, I began to notice odd affinities between Bedouin understandings of this concept and certain trends in metropolitan political philosophy. Why, I wondered, does Derrida sound like a Bedouin when he writes about hospitality? What are "Arab Bedouin" doing in Kant's discussion of universal hospitality? By putting Bedouin stories into conversation with European political thought, I will illustrate the deep, thematic similarities that pervade these traditions. The similarities, I argue, are based on historical relations, but also on a shared desire to locate human interaction in idealized spaces that transcend the political and moral systems in which we live. |
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| ISSN: | 02579774 |