Toward Hermeneutical Community and Hospitality

Abstract

This article sketches a dialogue between philosophical hermeneutics and deconstruction concerning two important concepts both for Philosophy and International Relations: community and hospitality, which have to do with the Kantian ideas about cosmopolitism. They are crucial for the description and comprehension of what is called the “international society”. The analysis aims to show that both can achieve a better productivity if guided by the paradoxical idea of “strangeness”. This idea could “deconstruct” both community and hospitality by constantly showing their particular “closure”. Then, we can start to see the interactions between them and their philosophical productivity to analyze “international society”.

Keywords

• Community. Hospitality. Strangeness. Hermeneutics. Deconstruction.