Ethics of Hospitality: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the Tirukkural Through a Levinasian Hermeneutic
Published online on January 09, 2026
Abstract
Journal of Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This article offers a Levinasian hermeneutic of theTirukkural’s ethical vision of hospitality, illuminating how Thiruvalluvar’s classic Tamil text resonates with Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of radical responsibility for the Other. While theTirukkural...
This article offers a Levinasian hermeneutic of theTirukkural’s ethical vision of hospitality, illuminating how Thiruvalluvar’s classic Tamil text resonates with Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of radical responsibility for the Other. While theTirukkural...