Ethics of hospitality. The limits of cosmopolitan rights

The paper re-examines, from a cosmopolitan perspective, the ethical and juridical topic of ‘hospitality’ in some of its paradoxical aspects that are more and more involved in difficult relationships with ‘outsiders’. On this base we will try to take another look at the problem posed by the growing phenomenon of migration in democratic and multi-ethnic societies, which, is bound to reappear, for good or for ill, on the level of social inclusion. Rethinking the concept and the practice of hospitality (the terrain of relating among “others”) today becomes an operation as important as ever, since precisely now, with the development of globalization and migration processes over the entire surface of the earth, the way of relating among “outsiders” is presented as a fact decisive for our social coexistence.