@article{ART002501370},
author={Lee, SangWon},
title={Ambiguous Force of Hospitality: The Problem of Being in Derrida’s Thoughts on Otherness, Law and Language},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2019},
volume={76},
number={3},
pages={469-498},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.76.3.201908.469}
TY - JOUR
AU - Lee, SangWon
TI - Ambiguous Force of Hospitality: The Problem of Being in Derrida’s Thoughts on Otherness, Law and Language
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2019
VL - 76
IS - 3
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 469
EP - 498
SN - 1598-3021
AB - This essay examines a problematic tension of being between conditional hospitality and unconditional hospitality in Derrida’s thoughts on otherness, law and language. I argue that Derrida’s thinking of hospitality is grounded in the dual movement of being with others, which contains both the forceful openness toward the other and the determining forces of law and language. Scholarly views of Derrida’s conception of hospitality have focused on the logical contradiction (aporia) or the meaning of practical impossibility of the absolute welcoming of the other. But a close reading of Derrida’s approach to the existential problem of hospitality shows significant political questions of being with others lurking behind the antinomy of conditional/unconditional hospitality. For Derrida, the possibility and limit of receiving others implies the questionable ground of language, law, and death in everyday life of human beings. While human beings cannot avoid the other’s overflowing movement forcefully entering their own dwelling, they also aspire to determine powerful rules of embracing others based on their own mode of language (logos). This situation of hospitality ultimately reveals the persistent problem of being in the polis, which is constantly open to others while setting up its own mode of relating to them.
KW - Hospitality;Being;Other;Language;Law;Differánce
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.76.3.201908.469
ER -
Lee, SangWon. (2019). Ambiguous Force of Hospitality: The Problem of Being in Derrida’s Thoughts on Otherness, Law and Language. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 76(3), 469-498.
Lee, SangWon. 2019, "Ambiguous Force of Hospitality: The Problem of Being in Derrida’s Thoughts on Otherness, Law and Language", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.76, no.3 pp.469-498. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.76.3.201908.469
Lee, SangWon "Ambiguous Force of Hospitality: The Problem of Being in Derrida’s Thoughts on Otherness, Law and Language" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 76.3 pp.469-498 (2019) : 469.
Lee, SangWon. Ambiguous Force of Hospitality: The Problem of Being in Derrida’s Thoughts on Otherness, Law and Language. 2019; 76(3), 469-498. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.76.3.201908.469
Lee, SangWon. "Ambiguous Force of Hospitality: The Problem of Being in Derrida’s Thoughts on Otherness, Law and Language" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 76, no.3 (2019) : 469-498.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.76.3.201908.469
Lee, SangWon. Ambiguous Force of Hospitality: The Problem of Being in Derrida’s Thoughts on Otherness, Law and Language. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 76(3), 469-498. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.76.3.201908.469
Lee, SangWon. Ambiguous Force of Hospitality: The Problem of Being in Derrida’s Thoughts on Otherness, Law and Language. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2019; 76(3) 469-498. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.76.3.201908.469
Lee, SangWon. Ambiguous Force of Hospitality: The Problem of Being in Derrida’s Thoughts on Otherness, Law and Language. 2019; 76(3), 469-498. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.76.3.201908.469
Lee, SangWon. "Ambiguous Force of Hospitality: The Problem of Being in Derrida’s Thoughts on Otherness, Law and Language" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 76, no.3 (2019) : 469-498.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.76.3.201908.469
