Title
Phenomenologies of the Stranger : Between Hostility and Hospitality / ed. by Kascha Semonovitch, Richard Kearney.
ISBN
9780823292332
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (362 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823292332 doi
Summary
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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Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Available in Other Form
print 9780823234622
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
PRELUDE
At the Threshold
Presentation of Texts
PART I: AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
1 Strangers at the Edge of Hospitality
2 Putting Hospitality in Its Place
3 Things at the Edge of the World
PART II: SACRED STRANGENESS
4 Hospitality and the Trouble with God
5 The Hospitality of Listening
6 Incarnate Experience
7 The Time of Hospitality-Again
PART III: THE UNCANNY REVISITED
The Null Basis-Being of a Nullity, Or Between Two Nothings
9 Heidegger and the Strangeness of Being
10 Progress in Spirit
11 The Uncanny Strangeness of Maternal Election
PART IV: HOSTS AND GUESTS
12 Being, the Other, the Stranger
13 Words of Welcome
14 Neither Close nor Strange
15 Between Mourning and Magnetism
16 The Stranger in the Polis
Notes
Contributors
Index of Names
