Cargando…

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McNulty, Tracy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the uncanny guest
  • Israel, divine hostess
  • Cosmopolitan hospitality and secular ethics: Kant today
  • Under the sign of the hostess: Pierre Klossowski's laws of hospitality
  • Hospitality after the death of God
  • Welcoming Dionysus, or, The subject as corps morcelé
  • The other jouissance, a gay sçavoir: feminine hospitality and the ethics of psychoanalysis.