Hospitalidad, con y sin papeles

Abstract

The objective of this article is to link the work on Jacques Derrida's archive to the experience of hospitality. It will seek to show that, on the one hand, it is always about the documents, the legitimacy that these do or do not grant at the philosophical level (desire to possess documents that will authorize one or another interpretative decision), as well as at the political level ("being documented" as a basic principle to every right to have rights, to all rights to community). But on the other hand, there is an attempt to think about that which ruins the proper idea of to have or not to have (documents), the idea of property, that which ultimately makes it impossible to construct a decision or identity and, therefore, a sovereignty, a border. Hospitality, the imminent arrival of the other, represents a political and ethical challenge for a philosopher:...