Cosmopolitanism as hospitality: Revisiting identity and difference in cosmopolitanism

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Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-128

  Baker, Gideon ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Cosmopolitanism; Derrida; Difference; Hospitality; Identity

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EID: 72149121576     PISSN: 03043754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030437540903400201     Document Type: Article

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8. Levinas, Totality and Infinity, note 6, p. 27.
9. "The relation with infinity respects the total Transcendence of the other without being bewitched by it", ibid., p. 78.
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11. "The relation with infinity respects the total Transcendence of the other without being bewitched by it", ibid., p. 76.
12. See also p. 37. Thus the home of which hospitality speaks is deconstructable (we can destabilize hospitality's binary terms of subjectobject, self-other, host-guest) but not dissolvable.
13. See also p. 75. Thus the home of which hospitality speaks is deconstructable (we can destabilize hospitality's binary terms of subjectobject, self-other, host-guest) but not dissolvable.
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36. Though, as we shall see, for Jacques Derrida this is an irreducible problematic (see, for example, Derrida, The Other Heading: Reflections on Today's Europe, translated by P. A. Brault and M. B. Naas [Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992] pp. 72-73).
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40. See also Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss ("Generalising the International", Review of International Studies 31 [2005]: 460-461), who argue using Derrida that undecidability, and the ways in which this paradoxically calls for decision, is the very condition of politics.
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43. See also Levinas, Existence and Existents, translated by A. Lingis (London: Kluwer, 1995), p. 94.
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54. Ibid., p. 46.
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56. Derrida, Adieu, note 7, p. 198.
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59. see also pp. 45, 47.
60. see also pp. 39
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62. Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, note 52, p. 33.
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64. see also pp. 12, 13.
65. see also pp. 66
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77. Derrida, "The World of the Enlightenment to Come", note 47, p. 40.
78. Borradori, Philosophy in a Time of Terror, note 68, p. 129.
79. Jacques Derrida, "The Principle of Hospitality", Parallax 11, no. 1 (2005): 6, emphasis added.
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84. Derrida, "The Principle of Hospitality", note 72, p. 7.
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87. Borradori, Philosophy in a Time of Terror, note 68, p. 129.
88. Derrida, Of Hospitality, note 65, p. 77.
89. Borradori, Philosophy in a Time of Terror, note 68, p. 129.
90. Derrida, "The Principle of Hospitality", note 72, p. 6.
91. Derrida, Adieu, note 7, p. 20.
92. Derrida, Adieu, note 7, p. 20.
93. Indeed, in Totality and Infinity, Levinas suggests that the "possibility of forgetting the transcendence of the Other" is the same thing as "banishing with impunity all hospitality... from the home" (pp. 172-173;
94. see also Levinas "The Nations and the Presence of Israel" in In the Time of Nations, translated by M. Smith [Bloomington: Indiana University Press, p. 98]).