Past, Present, and Future Possibilities for Philosophy and History of Education by Stefan Ramaekers & Naomi Hodgson

Author:Stefan Ramaekers & Naomi Hodgson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319942537
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Conclusion

In its colloquial use, hospitality is an ordinary word that describes what ordinary people enact by ordinary means in ordinary times. However, when brought into the realm of philosophy of education, it becomes possible to appreciate that hospitality is far more dynamic: hospitality provides an alternative to hostilities. John Bennett (2000; online, no pagination) writes explicitly about the importance of hospitality in the academy: “Being intellectually hospitable means being open to the different voices and idioms of others as potential agents for mutual enhancement, not just oppositional conflict.” Even in the academy, hospitality can be appreciated as an alternative to conflict.

Like Derrida, Haswell and Haswell interpret Levinas’ book as an extended treatise on hospitality, and the stakes for an ethic of hospitality could not be higher:the process of hospitality is a radical relation with the Other, a face-to-face encounter—creative, uncontrollable, and therefore understandable only as infinity. In the hospitable encounter lies the root of ethics, whereas war pursues winning by any means and thus stands outside of morality … Within hospitality war is always a possibility, but only hospitality can prevent war. (Haswell & Haswell, 2015, pp. 32–33)

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