Also:
Kaufman explains that intellectual hospitality is ultimately"a mode of
being in common that is not a form of correcting or out-mastering the other,
but rather a way of joining with the other in language or in thought so that
what is created is a community of thought that known no bounds, a hospitality
that liquidates identity, a communism of the soul" (141). In this quotation
I see direct connection with revolution. Here, Kaufman uses the word communism
and invokes a sense of spirituality in talking about the soul. But this, this
provocative and evocative notion, this idea that has been played with and
touched on throughout the book, is never directly addressed. This is the last
sentence of her book. But it is not an end. I took this sentence as an invitation
to look for the rhetoric of humanity, to note the connection with spirit and
hospitality.