JACQUES DERRIDA ON UNCONDITIONAL AND CONDITIONAL HOSPITALITY

Gerasimos Kakoliris
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Gerasimos Kakoliris: School of Humanities, The Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

Chapter 12 in Marketing and Management Sciences, 2010, pp 64-68 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThe aim of this paper is to offer a critical appraisal of Jacques Derrida's notion of hospitality. This critical appraisal begins by presenting the logic of this notion of hospitality, which is conditioned by the relationship between two terms in the form of an absolute antinomy or aporia. On the one hand, the law of "real" or "absolute" hospitality demands the unconditional reception of the foreigner. On the other hand, there are the conditional laws of hospitality which, while they translate the unconditional law into a reciprocal right to receive and a duty to offer hospitality, simultaneously impose conditions on it. The relationship between these two elements is then seen to determine the boundaries of a decision to offer hospitality. It is these boundaries, and the possibility of this decision, which are then seen to raise difficulties for a consistently responsible offer of hospitality.

Keywords: Management, Organizational Behavior, Marketing; Negotiation, Dynamic Models, International Business, Strategic Business, Human Resource, (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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