Phenomenologies of the Stranger Between Hostility and Hospitality

by Kearney, Richard; Semonovitch, Kascha

• ISBN13: 9780823234622
• ISBN10: 0823234622
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-02
• Publisher: Fordham University Press

Summary

Chiefly proceedings of a conference held in 2009 at Boston College.

Author Biography

Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair in Philosophy at Boston College and is Visiting Professor at University College Dublin. Kascha Semonovitch is Lecturer in Philosophy at Seattle University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Prelude
At the Threshold: Foreigners, Strangers, Others	p. 3
Presentation of Texts	p. 30
At the Edge of the World
Strangers at the Edge of Hospitality	p. 39
Putting Hospitality in Its Place	p. 49
Things at the Edge of the World	p. 67
Sacred Strangeness
Hospitality and the Trouble with God	p. 83
The Hospitality of Listening: A Note on Sacramental Strangeness	p. 98
Incarnate Experience	p. 109
The Time of Hospitality-Again	p. 126
The Uncanny Revisited
The Null Basis-Being of a Nullity, Or Between Two Nothings: Heidegger's Uncanniness	p. 145
Heidegger and the Strangeness of Being	p. 155
Progress in Spirit: Freud and Kristeva on the Uncanny	p. 168
The Uncanny Strangeness of Maternal Election: Levinas and Kristeva on Parental Passion	p. 196
Hosts and Guests
Being, the Other, the Stranger	p. 215
Words of Welcome: Hospitality in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas	p. 232
Neither Close nor Strange: Levinas, Hospitality, and Genocide	p. 242
Between Mourning and Magnetism: Derrida and Waldenfels on the Art of Hospitality	p. 258
The Stranger in the Polis: Hospitality in Greek Myth	p. 274
Notes	p. 285
List of Contributors	p. 333
Index of Names	p. 337
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