Documenting our Landscape

The ethics of hospitality, according to Levinas, requires one to respond to the welcome of the other; a welcome that may or may not be offered. The readiness to respond to the welcome of the other requires an aThe ethics of hospitality, according to Levinas, requires one to respond to the welcome of the other; a welcome that may or may not be offered. The readiness to respond to the welcome of the other requires an openness that removes the interiority of the I, thereby opening one to the infinite exteriority of the other. Levinas interrogates the notion of welcome and hospitality through, in part, the overriding ethical imperative to be response-able (my take on the responsibility for the other that Levinas speaks of so often). Being response-able means that one must be able to respond to the welcome of the other, respond even when the welcome is silent, when the welcome is unspoken, when the welcome is impossible. openness that removes the interiority of the I, thereby opening one to the infinite exteriority of the other. Levinas interrogates the notion of welcome and hospitality through, in part, the overriding ethical imperative to be response-able (my take on the responsibility for the other that Levinas speaks of so often). Being response-able means that one must be able to respond to the welcome of the other, respond even when the welcome is silent, when the welcome is unspoken, when the welcome is impossible.