The EROTIC and PRAGMATIC SENSES of HOSPITALITY Jean-Luc Nancy and Bernard Stiegler’s Conversation on Christianity, Politics, and the Ends of Philosophy
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This article discusses three aspects of hospitality. The author first presents hospitality as a way to think the shared, responsive structure of existence. From this ontological sense of hospitality as originary response, the author presents two political inflections offered by Jean-Luc Nancy and Bernard Stiegler in their “Conversation about Christianity.” Nancy presents a hospitality animated by the experience of alterity—bound with a politics of risk; while Stiegler thinks from the basis of the prepared and preparing host—and offers a politics of care. This conversation presents a fundamental tension within the question of hospitality that not only separates Nancy’s and Stiegler’s thought but also charts a larger difference between a philosophical eros and theoretical pragmatics, an attunement to the infinite and the finite that can be traced back to a shared affirmative point of departure: an original yes to alterity, to sense.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Cultural Politics |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 1 |
Pages (from-to) | 64-73 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISSN | 1743-2197 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 03.2025 |
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- Cultural Studies
- Communication
- Sociology and Political Science
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Bernard Stiegler, hospitality, Jean-Luc Nancy, sense, world
- Philosophy
- Science of art