Oikonomics : economy and the (im)possibility of hospitality in philosophy, selected contemporary film and literature

Arguments for immigration are often posed on the basis that it is 'good for the economy'. This provokes those who wish to contest the ethics of this purely economic notion of hospitality. I argue in this thesis that as hospitality, an encounter between host (self) and guest/stranger/foreig...

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Main Author: Jones, Nisha
Published: University of Sussex 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496997