Hospitality, Volume II

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Exploring the concept of hospitality, this collection features Jacques Derrida's lectures that delve into the complexities of welcoming the foreigner and the implications for kinship and state relations. Key themes include friendship, citizenship, migration, and xenophobia, alongside a critical distinction between conditional and unconditional hospitality. The second year of the seminar also addresses Islamic perspectives on hospitality, the significance of forgiveness, and the philosophical contributions of Emmanuel Levinas, enriching the discourse on responsibility in a global context.