Name: Ethics of Hospitality (Law and Politics)
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Author: Daniel Innerarity
ISBN: 9781138333529

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Ethics of Hospitality (Law and Politics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Daniel Innerarity

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781138333529

Edition No.

Synopsis "Ethics of Hospitality (Law and Politics) "

The source of hospitality lies in the fundamental ethical experiences that make up the fabric of the social lives of people. Therein lies a primary form of humanity. Whether we are guests or hosts, this reveals our situation in a world made up of receiving and meeting, leaving room for the liberty to give and receive beyond the imperatives of reciprocity. This book proposes an ethic that promotes the possibility of stirring emotion before that of protecting ourselves from unexpected encounters. Fundamental ethical competence consists of opening up to the wholly other and to others, to be accessible to the world’s solicitations. There is moral superiority of vulnerable love over control and moderation, of generous passion over rational prudence and of excess over exchange. Constructing an ethic of hospitality is essential at a time when we are torn between the imperatives of modernization and growth and the demands of concern and protection. The experience we all have today, that of the fragility of the world, is giving rise to a powerful tendency toward solicitude. From such a perspective, the duty of individuals no longer consists of protecting themselves from society, but of defending it, taking care of a social fabric outside of which no identity can be formed.

Daniel Innerarity

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He is a professor of political philosophy, Ikerbasque researcher at the University of the Basque Country, director of the Institute of Democratic Governance and professor at the European University Institute in Florence, where he holds the Artificial Intelligence & Democracy chair. He has been a visiting professor at various European and American universities, such as the University of Sorbonne, the London School of Economics, Georgetown University, and the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg. Prince of Viana Culture Award (2013) and Basque Essay Award (2012). The French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur mentioned him as one of the 25 great thinkers of the world. His latest books are Understanding Democracy (2018), A Theory of Complex Democracy (2020) and Pandemocracy: A Philosophy of the Coronavirus Crisis (2020)

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