Abstract
Politics is an impossible counsel (Derrida, Monolingualism 30). On the one hand, we are unconditionally open to the other, to others. Such unconditional opening to what or who comes is the minimal condition of life. Absolute exposure to the other provides the horizon without horizon of what Jacques Derrida calls the law of unconditional hospitality, which stipulates that we welcome any other without conditions, without asking for a name. On the other hand, hospitality in fact requires conditions, because there is no hospitality without decision, without responsibility, without my deciding whom or what to grant entry to my house. Although we are unconditionally exposed to the other and although there is the law of unconditional hospitality, such unconditional exposure and hospitality cannot be conceived as an ideal toward which we aspire. Unconditional hospitality cannot be opposed as pure hospitality to
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