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This paper aims to call into question Kantian cosmopolitanism by pointing out ‘economic’ limits of Kantian cosmopolitan tolerance and as a way of getting over the ‘economic’ limits of Kantian cosmopolitanism, to propose Derridian idea of ‘aneconomic’ hospitality. With the ‘economic’ idea of ‘common possession of the surface of the earth’ by human beings, Kant develops ‘a right of temporary sojourn’ as a compensation for occupation of ‘a particular part of the earth’ which infringes on the ‘common right to the face of the earth.’ Kant’s idea of ‘tolerate the presence of each other’ is purely based on the economic. First, Kant puts the earth as one of ‘standing-reserve’ in Heideggerian sense of technology since the earth can be possessed like one of economic resources or properties. Rendering the earth ‘standing-reserve’ results in putting other human beings endowed with the ‘common right to the earth’ into ‘standing-reserve’ of the system which doles out ‘a right of temporary sojourn’ or tolerance. Criticizing Kantian cosmopolitanism, Derrida excavates hospitality underneath the Kant’s idea of ‘common possession of the surface of the earth.’ Derrida says, ‘the earth gives hospitality before all else’ to the occupants of the surface of the earth. The ‘aneconomic’ hospitality precedes the ‘economic’ right of possession of the earth. According to Derrida, the ‘aneconomic’ gives birth to the ‘economic’ as shown in gift. He exposes hospitality as a precondition of tolerance. Tolerance is suggested as a form of ‘economic’ accommodation of ‘aneconomic’ hospitality. The ‘aneconomic’ hospitality breaks the ‘economic’ system that produces rights and tolerance based on ‘economic’ exchange or debt. The ‘aneconomic’ rupture liberates the ‘economic’ from its own prison and pushes it to ‘invent’ the ‘other economic.’ The ‘economic,’ the possible must be prepared to welcome hospitality given by the ‘aneconomic,’ the ‘im-possible,’ for the future of the ‘other’ economic, the ‘other’ possible.
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cosmopolitanism, Kant, the ‘economic,’ right, tolerance, ‘standing-reserve,’ Derrida, the ‘aneconomic,’ gift, hospitality, right of asylum
