TY - JOUR

T1 - The EROTIC and PRAGMATIC SENSES of HOSPITALITY Jean-Luc Nancy and Bernard Stiegler’s Conversation on Christianity, Politics, and the Ends of Philosophy

AU - Stewart, Donovan

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2025 Duke University Press.

PY - 2025/3

Y1 - 2025/3

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Bernard Stiegler

KW - hospitality

KW - Jean-Luc Nancy

KW - sense

KW - world

KW - Philosophy

KW - Science of art

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105010125995&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1215/17432197-11557633

DO - 10.1215/17432197-11557633

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:105010125995

VL - 21

SP - 64

EP - 73

JO - Cultural Politics

JF - Cultural Politics

SN - 1743-2197

IS - 1

ER -