Vacarme 38 / chantier les lois de l’hospitalité
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Traditionally, hospitality seems to be caught between the upright pole of duty and the weight of a constraint: by imposing his presence, the stranger seems to embody an obligation which is more ancient than politics, and which thus acts to restrict both the scope of politics and the joys it can provide. A politics detached from this transcendent perspective cannot simply bury the obligation of hospitality under orgies of sharing: we must re-examine the experience of the welcome, identify its curious joys — which mirror its very constraints — and derive from it the ethical and anthropological norms which will give new meaning to the laws of hospitality.
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