Cosmopolitanism as an inter-species practice. Few remarks on non-anthropocentric hospitality

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https://doi.org/10.14394/etyka.1255

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cosmopolitanism, citizenship, animal rights, posthumanism, Zoopolis

Abstract

The Derridean question of whether the notion of hospitality involves paradoxical (un)conditionality
is also a question of the scope of the first term and its subject of reference: if hospitality is
what governs all interaction, then perhaps it is not solely reducible to human relations. The aim
of the article is to trace the notions of non-anthropocentric hospitality that have been articulated
in recent years in political theory, elaborating on the Kantian proposal of cosmopolitan right with
the intent to ground animal rights and animal political subjecthood. The article discusses the idea
of a cosmopolitan animal, cosmopolitics and cosmopolitanism construed in the non-logocentric
manner, as in the tradition of ancient Cynicism, as well as the posthumanist theories informed by
cosmopolitanism and the project of state politics based on cosmopolitan principles (Zoopolis).
Keywords: cosmopolitanism, citizenship, animal rights, posthumanism, Zoopolis

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Author Biography

Alina Mitek-Dziemba, University of Silesia

assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the
University of Silesia. Her research focuses on comparative studies, ecocriticism, human-animal
studies and postsecularism.

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2019-11-28

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Mitek-Dziemba, Alina. 2019. “Cosmopolitanism As an Inter-Species Practice. Few Remarks on Non-Anthropocentric Hospitality”. Etyka 58 (1). Warsaw, Poland:76-96. https://doi.org/10.14394/etyka.1255.

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Vol. 58 No. 1 (2019)

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