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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is the stupidest take on hospitality I've ever seen. This person needs to be beaten over the head with a copy of Derrida's "On Hospitality" until they become unconscious or learn something, whichever happens first.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's the Derrida book I think about the most. Unironically a great read

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It has informed so much of what I do, working with food and conviviality. I come back to it every now and then, and it's still fresh.

It is a source for one of my favorite ethical essays, too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you read Levinas? Derrida's later stuff takes a lot of inspiration from his ideas about ethics and justice

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I have, based on what Derrida referenced on his writings on hospitality and his Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas, but I haven't gone in detail on it.

If you're interested in seeing a food-related take to ethics as hospitality, I really recommend the essay "Ethics is Hospitality" by Raymond Boisvert and Lisa Heldke, too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Time and the Other is a banger. He wrote most of it in a German POW camp

I'll check that essay out, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Downloading the book right now! Thanks!

The whole book "Philosophers at table" (where the essay is from) is really good, if you've ever felt the need to overthink food like I do daily lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I really love Of God Who Comes to Mind.

Good selection of essays in that one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh cool, I haven't read that one