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Hospitality and the Enlightenment (Encountering China): A Conversation with Immanuel Kant and Jacques Derrida book cover

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Hospitality and the Enlightenment (Encountering China) A Conversation with Immanuel Kant and Jacques Derrida

By Anni Greve Copyright 2026
254 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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With the change of power in Washington, the word ‘Enlightenment’ has taken on a dramatic topicality that no one could have wished for. The wisdom of the eighteenth century could not be more relevant. This book demonstrates a relationship between hospitality towards the foreigner and the European Enlightenment – a relationship that is relevant to today’s landscape. Greve begins by unfolding the... Read more

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INTRODUCTION

 

PART I   HOSPITALITY AND THE EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT

 

1.1       Hospitality and the Enlightenment: Immanuel Kant

 

1.2     Khôra

 

1.3     Given time

 

1.4     Of Hospitality

 

PART II PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY

 

2.1     Global history, hospitality and the Enlightenment

 

2.2       Global history and hospitality to a stateless diaspora group: welcome, finance, antisemitism

 

2.3      A khôra moment

 

PART III               HOSPITALITY AND COPENHAGEN IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT

 

3.1      Copenhagen and the foreigner in pure finance

 

3.2      Negotiation: one must negotiate the non-negotiable: The ‘free’ port city

 

3.3     Mediation and iteration: The merchant’s letter

 

3.4.    Spaces of hospitality in Copenhagen in the age of the Enlightenment

 

PART IV              ENCOUNTERING CHINA TODAY

 

4.1.     Encountering China

 

AFTERWORD

 

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Anni Greve is Associate Professor of Sociology, emerita, at Roskilde University, with specialist interests in cosmopolitanism, urbanism, and the social sciences. She is the author of Sanctuaries of the City – Lessons from Tokyo (Ashgate 2011, Routledge 2016).

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