Phenomenologies of the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality

Published by Fordham University Press 2011

Phenomenologies of the Stranger

Between Hostility and Hospitality

Edited by: Richard Kearney and Kascha Semonovitch

In the series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292332

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What is strange? Or better, who is strange? When do we encounter the strange? We encounter strangers when we are not at home: when we are in a foreign land or a foreign part of our own land. From Freud to Lacan to Kristeva to Heidegger, the feeling of strangeness—das Unheimlichkeit—has marked our encounter with the other, even the other within our self. Most philosophical attempts to understand the role of the Stranger, human or transcendent, have been limited to standard epistemological problems of other minds, metaphysical substances, body/soul dualism and related issues of consciousness and cognition. This volume endeavors to take the question of hosting the stranger to the deeper level of embodied imagination and the senses (in the Greek sense of aisthesis). This volume plays host to a number of encounters with the strange. It asks such questions as: How does the embodied imagination relate to the Stranger in terms of hospitality or hostility (given the common root of hostis as both host and enemy)? How do we distinguish between projections of fear or fascination, leading to either violence or welcome? How do humans “sense” the dimension of the strange and alien in different religions, arts, and cultures? How do the five physical senses relate to the spiritual senses, especially the famous “sixth” sense, as portals to an encounter with the Other? Is there a carnal perception of alterity, which would operate at an affective, prereflective, preconscious level? What exactly do “embodied imaginaries” of hospitality and hostility entail, and how do they operate in language, psychology, and social interrelations (including racism, xenophobia, and scapegoating)? And what, finally, are the topical implications of these questions for an ethics and practice of tolerance and peace?

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
PRELUDE
At the Threshold Foreigners, Strangers, Others Richard Kearney and Kascha Semonovitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Presentation of Texts Richard Kearney and Kascha Semonovitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
PART I: AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
1 Strangers at the Edge of Hospitality Edward S. Casey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
2 Putting Hospitality in Its Place Brian Treanor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
3 Things at the Edge of the World David Wood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
PART II: SACRED STRANGENESS
4 Hospitality and the Trouble with God John D. Caputo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5 The Hospitality of Listening A Note on Sacramental Strangeness Karmen MacKendrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
6 Incarnate Experience Anthony J. Steinbock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
7 The Time of Hospitality—Again Kalpana Rahita Seshadri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
PART III: THE UNCANNY REVISITED
The Null Basis-Being of a Nullity, Or Between Two Nothings Heidegger’s Uncanniness Simon Critchley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
9 Heidegger and the Strangeness of Being William J. Richardson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
10 Progress in Spirit Freud and Kristeva on the Uncanny Vanessa Rumble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
11 The Uncanny Strangeness of Maternal Election Levinas and Kristeva on Parental Passion Kelly Oliver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
PART IV: HOSTS AND GUESTS
12 Being, the Other, the Stranger Jean Greisch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
13 Words of Welcome Hospitality in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas Jeffrey Bloechl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
14 Neither Close nor Strange Levinas, Hospitality, and Genocide William H. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
15 Between Mourning and Magnetism Derrida and Waldenfels on the Art of Hospitality Christopher Yates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
16 The Stranger in the Polis Hospitality in Greek Myth John Panteleimon Manoussakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 362

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Published: March 24, 2022
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