Politique et hospitalité : (au-delà) de la figure de l'étranger comme dispositif politique fondamental pour la construction de l'identité par la différence
Auteur / Autrice : | Ana Paula Penchaszadeh |
Direction : | Patrice Vermeren, Ricardo Forster |
Type : | Thèse de doctorat |
Discipline(s) : | Philosophie |
Date : | Soutenance en 2010 |
Etablissement(s) : | Paris 8 |
Résumé
This thesis seeks to interrogate and surpass the figure of the foreigner as a fundamental device for the definition of identity / difference, from the concept of hospitality. It does so by maintaining a dialogue with different sociological, anthropological and political perspectives as well as original reading of Jacques Derrida’s proposals on hospitality. This study comes out of a set of hypotheses about the tragic and productive relationship of identity and alienation that seem insurmountable and unanswerable. But it takes on the task of pushing the reflection of hostility towards hospitality. This will be possible thanks to Derrida's theory, which distinguishes the concrete and measurable forms that the social sciences and anthropology use to analyze the issue of hospitality, in relation to identify and difference, from the manner that these issues can be looked at by poetry and philosophy, that is, taking into account (at that place where this is precisely impossible) the immeasurable and unpredictable. It is between these two ''manners,'' then, that this research is located. The thesis addresses five major issues that cut across the problem of hospitality in Derrida, namely: the gift, sovereignty, language, the birth / death link, and democracy. These are all issues that appear clearly in the center of Derrida's reflection from the 90s, although of course one can find traces of these reflections from his earliest works. These five issues condense much of Derrida's effort to define politics that go beyond democratic and hospitality politics.