Abstract

PANTOJA PESCHARD, María José. How to Face the Imminent Arrival of the Other? Some Thoughts on Jacques Derrida’s Concept of Hospitality. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2020, vol.65, n.238, pp.107-129.  Epub Feb 05, 2020. ISSN 0185-1918.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2020.238.69399.

Jacques Derrida argues that the best way to approach today’s urgent matter of transnational migration is to adopt the perspective of hospitality. This paper conducts a philosophical analysis of this argument. First, it discusses Derrida’s understanding of hospitality, and how this concept allows him to claim that there is an inextricable yet contradictory relationship between ethics and politics. It then explains how this link between ethics and politics leads Derrida to conclude that a policy of hospitality that strives to welcome the other unconditionally is both possible and necessary, and that this implies that it is possible to build social and political bonds beyond the nation-state and grounded on hospitality.

Keywords : hospitality; politics; ethics; migration.

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