Reservations on hospitality

contact and vulnerability in Kant and indigenous action

Jimmy Casas Klausen

pp. 197-221

in: Gideon Baker (ed), Hospitality and world politics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

Just as in war and politics there is no definitive victory, but only a relative and precarious superiority or equilibrium, so in the order of life there are no successes that radically devalorize other attempts and make them appear failed. All successes are threatened, since individuals and even species die. Successes are delayed failures; failures are aborted successes.1

Cited authors

Kant Immanuel