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The hostess : hospitality, femininity, and the expropriation of identity /

In The Hostess, Tracy McNulty asks, What are the implications for personhood of sharing a person-a wife or daughter-as an act of hospitality? Combining critical readings of the Bible and Pierre Klossowski's trilogy The Laws of Hospitality, the writings of Kant and Nietzsche, and the work of Fre...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McNulty, Tracy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In The Hostess, Tracy McNulty asks, What are the implications for personhood of sharing a person-a wife or daughter-as an act of hospitality? Combining critical readings of the Bible and Pierre Klossowski's trilogy The Laws of Hospitality, the writings of Kant and Nietzsche, and the work of Freud and Lacan, she contends hospitality involves the boundary between the proper and the improper.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (liii, 280 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-268) and index.
ISBN:9780816698127
0816698120