Theorstein Veblen, Jacques Derrida y Slavoj Zizek: religion, hospitatlity and modernity

Abstract

The modern world has been characterized by a gradual declination of ecclesiastic powers in the profane sphere. This work is aimed at bridging three scholars who in spite of each one’s genius remain unconnected. Although each scholar employed a materialist perspective to view the role played by religion in daily social life and in the construction of hospitality, there is not a previous project that put Derrida, Veblen and Zizek in dialogue. Underpinned in the proposition that religiosity is born from the principle of hospitality, we strongly believe that perversion, as Zizek puts it, does not seem to be the tergiversated message of an older divine mandate but the message itself.