Naslov
Hospitality as a Virtue of the Place

Autori
Pavić, Lana

Izvornik
Poligrafi (1318-8828) 21 (2016), 83/84; 27-43

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
hospitality, stranger, migrant, refugee, war

Sažetak
In the context of political theory, the term of hospitality is usually defined as a special form of interaction among individuals of different cultural, national, religious or political communities. This interaction provides welcoming of the guest by the host on the border, doorstep, threshold or edge. There is no hospitality without an edge because, as Edward Casey suggests, the edge is “where strangers are received: it is where hospitality happens.” Even though this definition seems understandable, etymological insight in the Latin word hostis (signifying at the same time a guest / a stranger / an enemy) opens the inseparability between the understanding of the term hospitality and the term hostility. According to Richard Kearney the wager between hospitality and hostility is one of the inaugural dramas of human ethics. This moral and political wager is strongly rooted in the Western philosophical, linguistic and religious tradition that made the term hospitality, as well as the practices of it, an abstract virtue and at the same time a “living existential struggle – a struggle with crucial contemporary implications.”

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Interdisciplinarne društvene znanosti, Filozofija

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