Abstract��
The paper takes a philosophical instead of a historical perspective to look at contemporary Chinese art, concerned with the relationship between contemporary Chinese art and ��Western�� theory. In the attempt to articulate the relationship between contemporary Chinese art and ��Western�� theory, the paper proposes ��the question of hospitality�� as its approach to the issue, asking who exactly the host and the guest are and what kind of dynamics is suggests by a relationship of hospitality. It begins by proposing a brief sketch of a philosophical theme or dilemma that is supposed to be crucial for the development of ��theory�� in the 1980 and reflects on its relationship to developments in contemporary Chinese art. The paper maintains that the ��contemporary�� implies a new position, a new orientation in relation to the circumstances and events of the present.
�����: ���������Ͻ����ν�������ά���ѧ��ѧϵ����Ҫ�о�����Ϊŷ½��ѧ������ѧ����ѧ�Լ�������ѧ�����ѷ���Ķಿѧ��ר������The Present Personal: Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language (2005), Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics as an Optics (2008), Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking (co-ed, I Ferber, 2011), Visage(s): Une autre ��thique du regard apr��s Levinas (2012), The Ethics of Visuality: Levinas and the Contemporary Gaze (2013). ���ʣ�kenaan@post.tau.ac.il
2015, Vol. 35 
