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Derrida on Hospitality

March 9, 2006 Adam Walker Cleaveland

“But pure or unconditioned hospitality does not consist in such an invitation (“I invite you, I welcome you into my home, on the condition that you adapt to the laws and norms of my territory, according to my language, tradition, memory, and so on”). Pure and unconditional hospitality, hospitality itself, opens or is in advance open to someone who is neither expected nor invited, to whomever arrives as an absolutely foreign visitor, as a new arrival, nonidentifiable and unforeseeable, in short, wholly other.”
-Derrida (Philosophy in a Time of Terror, edited by Giovanna Borradori, p. 17)

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