Hospitality and its Ambivalences: On Zygmunt Bauman
Welten,R.B.J.M.
Welten,R.B.J.M.
Abstract
Hospitality is often understood as an ethical openness towards the other. Hospitality, in this way, is a gift. But is this really the situation of hospitality in the world today? Europeans have created another, bespoke hospitality and they insist on being given a generous welcome all over the world — colonialists, imperialists, businessmen, tourists, scientists and students. Europe is too small for the Europeans: the world is their oyster. Yet in that oyster, hospitality is more often the cause of problems than the solution. In the following article, I will elaborate on this critical idea of hospitality as it is understood in the works of Zygmunt Bauman.
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2015
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hospitality, zygmunt bauman, emmanuel levinas
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Welten, R B J M 2015, 'Hospitality and its Ambivalences : On Zygmunt Bauman', Hospitality and Society, vol. 5, no. 1, 1, pp. 7-21.