Ambivalences of hospitality
Ambivalences of hospitality
This essay addresses the ambivalences, limits, and possibilities of an ethics of hospitality. It argues for three claims. First, there is a significant disjuncture between an ethics of hospitality and a politics of hospitality expressed as cosmopolitan right. Second, a cosmopolitan right of universal hospitality does not, and cannot, fully capture our obligations to refugees. Third, there is a significant role of an ethics of hospitality in a form that has been modulated by the discourse of moral equality and human dignity in helping to sustain a just politics of refuge.
Hospitality, Cosmopolitanism, Refugees
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Owen, David
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1 March 2022
Owen, David
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Abstract
This essay addresses the ambivalences, limits, and possibilities of an ethics of hospitality. It argues for three claims. First, there is a significant disjuncture between an ethics of hospitality and a politics of hospitality expressed as cosmopolitan right. Second, a cosmopolitan right of universal hospitality does not, and cannot, fully capture our obligations to refugees. Third, there is a significant role of an ethics of hospitality in a form that has been modulated by the discourse of moral equality and human dignity in helping to sustain a just politics of refuge.
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Published date: 1 March 2022
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I am grateful to Peter Niesen for comments on a draft of this paper and to Arien Mack for the opportunity and encouragement.
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Hospitality, Cosmopolitanism, Refugees
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/457527
ISSN: 0037-783X
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