The hostess
Subtitle: hospitality, femininity, and the expropriation of identity
By: Tracy McNulty.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780816647408; 9780816647415
Subjects: Hospitality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the uncanny guest; title: Israel, divine hostess; title: Cosmopolitan hospitality and secular ethics: Kant today; title: Under the sign of the hostess: Pierre Klossowski's laws of hospitality; title: Hospitality after the death of God; title: Welcoming Dionysus, or, The subject as corps morcelé; title: The other jouissance, a gay sçavoir: feminine hospitality and the ethics of psychoanalysis.