9. Unconditional and Conditional Hospitality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Abbreviations of Works ix
5. Introduction: Fist Bumps and Pandemic Bubbles 1
6. I. Preliminaries: Questions on the Threshold
7. 1. Hodos and Odos (Homeric Hospitality 1) 17
8. 2. Translating Hospitality 23
9. 3. Masters of the House: Hospitality and Sovereignty 31
10. 4. Xenos and Xenia (Homeric Hospitality 2) 39
11. 5. On Dying Abroad: Oedipus (on the Threshold) at Colonus 44
12. 6. Plato’s Xenoi 53
13. II. The “Concept” of Hospitality
14. 7. Stranger Things 63
15. 8. Conditional and Unconditional Hospitality 67
16. 9. Unconditional and Conditional Hospitality 79
17. 10. The Art or Poetics of Hospitality 97
18. 11. But Why So Much Kant? 104
19. 12. Xenos Paradox: Hospitality and Autoimmunity 113
20. III. The Wall, the Door, the Threshold, the Hotspot
21. 13. Dirty Foreigners: The Question of Purity 127
22. 14. Homing Devices: Teletechnology and the Question of Private Space 133
23. 15. Phantasms of Fatherlands and Mother Tongues 145
24. 16. Phantasms of Mother Tongues and Mobile Phones 152
25. 17. On Cosmopolitanism and Cities of Refuge 164
26. 18. Beyond Anthropo- Hospitality: Plants, Animals, Gods, and Clones 177
27. Conclusion. From Threshold to Threshold— Derrida’s Démarche 199
28. Acknowledgments 207
29. Appendix: Two Regimes of Hospitality (Chart) 209
30. Notes 211
31. Index 233
32. About the Author 237