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.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1 |
Pages (from-to) | 7-21 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Hospitality and Society |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- hospitality
- zygmunt bauman
- emmanuel levinas