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This paper’s central argument is that Michel Henry’s phenomenology of Life can be used to establish an ethic of hospitality. Henry recalls, by establishing the relationship to the other inside the Life’s community, that the stranger is not primarily an invader, but rather a brother, but in the meaning of the African term “ndeko”, derived from Lingala, spoken in both Congo. It is a phenomenology that asks us to transcend geographical, biological, cultural, etc. contingencies, in order to (re)discover what unites us and must be fostered and protected: our humanity. In the era of humanitarian dramas of immigration in the Mediterranean Sea and in the face of identity withdrawals following the growth of extreme beliefs, the phenomenology of Life shows itself as a vital contribution, notably on the topic of the foreigner’s status and reception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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