The Stranger as My Guest : A Critical Anthropology of Hospitality (Paperback)

Acknowledgements


Introduction. Hospitality when least expected


Chapter 1. Making the stranger my guest

The conditions of unconditionality

The elementary forms of hospitality

From domestic hospitality to public hospitality


Chapter 2. Hospitality – the challenge of the present

Encounters of a new type

Hospitality – causes and effects

The emergence of municipal hospitality

From ghetto to migrant houses

Hospitable municipality versus hostile state


Chapter 3. The need for cosmopolitics

Cosmopolitanism today

The principle of hospitality and cosmopolitics from a philosophical perspective

Banal cosmopolitanism: an anthropological point of view


Chapter 4. Becoming a stranger

The death of Stavros or the birth of Joe Arness

Three times a stranger

The migrant poet and the spectre of the alien


Conclusion


Postscript. The stranger post Covid-19

Notes

Index