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Phenomenologies of the stranger : between hostility and hospitality / edited by Richard Kearney and Kascha Semonovitch

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New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
ix, 339 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Kearney, Richard and Semonovitch, Kascha

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: At the Threshold: Foreigners, Strangers, Others / Kascha Semonovitch -- Presentation of Texts / Kascha Semonovitch -- pt. I AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD -- 1.Strangers at the Edge of Hospitality / Edward S. Casey -- 2.Putting Hospitality in Its Place / Brian Treanor -- 3.Things at the Edge of the World / David Wood -- pt. II SACRED STRANGENESS -- 4.Hospitality and the Trouble with God / John D. Caputo -- 5.The Hospitality of Listening: A Note on Sacramental Strangeness / Karmen MacKendrick -- 6.Incarnate Experience / Anthony J. Steinbock -- 7.The Time of Hospitality---Again / Kalpana Rahita Seshadri -- pt. III THE UNCANNY REVISITED -- 8.The Null Basis-Being of a Nullity, Or Between Two Nothings: Heidegger's Uncanniness / Simon Critchley -- 9.Heidegger and the Strangeness of Being / William J. Richardson -- 10.Progress in Spirit: Freud and Kristeva on the Uncanny / Vanessa Rumble -- 11.The Uncanny Strangeness of Maternal Election: Levinas and Kristeva on Parental Passion / Kelly Oliver -- pt. IV HOSTS AND GUESTS -- 12.Being, the Other, the Stranger / Jean Greisch -- 13.Words of Welcome: Hospitality in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas / Jeffrey Bloechl -- 14.Neither Close nor Strange: Levinas, Hospitality, and Genocide / William H. Smith -- 15.Between Mourning and Magnetism: Derrida and Waldenfels on the Art of Hospitality / Christopher Yates -- 16.The Stranger in the Polis: Hospitality in Greek Myth / John Panteleimon Manoussakis.
Summary
What is strange? Or better, who is strange? When do we encounter the stranger? This volume takes the question of hosting the Stranger to the deeper level of embodied imagination & the senses.
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ISBN
9780823234615
0823234614
9780823234622 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0823234622 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Note
Chiefly proceedings of a conference held in 2009 at Boston College.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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