Phenomenologies of the Stranger
Between Hostility and Hospitality
Publication Year: 2011
Published by: Fordham University Press
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5. The Hospitality of Listening: A Note on Sacramental Strangeness
Among the most promising-seeming possibilities for an ethics linked to theology—always a risky proposition—is that of regarding the world as sacramental. A sacramental sensibility seems, potentially at least, a way to a valuing of some aspects of the world...

7. The Time of Hospitality—Again
How does someone dreaming, wondering about half-forgotten stories in dead languages, (something about a boy who seeks hospitality from Death only to find that Death is not at home and awaits him . . .) find a door, at least a narrow passage to slip into the discursive...

8. The Null Basis-Being of a Nullity, Or Between Two Nothings: Heidegger’s Uncanniness
At times, reading a classical philosophical text is like watching an ice floe break up during global warming. The compacted cold assurance of a coherent system begins to become liquid and great conceptual pieces break off before your eyes and begin...

10. Progress in Spirit: Freud and Kristeva on the Uncanny
In the penultimate chapter of Strangers to Ourselves (1989), Julia Kristeva distills the ‘‘political and ethical impact of the Freudian breakthrough.’’1 Surfacing at the close of an invigorating cultural (and classically Kristevan) romp through political...

11. The Uncanny Strangeness of Maternal Election: Levinas and Kristeva on Parental Passion
In his essay ‘‘The Uncanny,’’ Sigmund Freud describes the uncanny as what is concealed and frightening in the familiar and agreeable or vice versa.1 He moves from discussing animated dolls, the Sandman’s fear of losing his eyes as castration anxiety...

12. Being, the Other, the Stranger
If philosophizing is not merely a matter of attending to everything, including things that are of no vital concern to us, but rather requires that one become conscious of what one is doing when one engages with questions, then we must start by recognizing...

13. Words of Welcome: Hospitality in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
Emmanuel Levinas signals the importance of hospitality for his approach to ethics and religion about two-thirds of the way through his first major work, Totality and Infinity: No human or interhuman relationship can be enacted outside...

14. Neither Close nor Strange: Levinas, Hospitality, and Genocide
At the outset of Totality and Infinity, Emmanuel Levinas defines the Other (l’Autrui)—the overarching theme of all his work—in terms of the stranger. He writes: The absolutely other is the Other. He and I do not form a number...

15. Between Mourning and Magnetism: Derrida and Waldenfels on the Art of Hospitality
Plutarch recounts a scene in the life of the Athenian lawmaker Solon (sixth century BC), when another Greek sage, Anacharsis, has come to visit: ‘‘Anacharsis, coming to Athens, knocked at Solon’s door, and told him, that he, being a stranger...

16. The Stranger in the Polis: Hospitality in Greek Myth
By the gates of Thebes the stranger has no name. For to be given a name, or to give oneself a name, is to identify oneself as someone, and therefore as not a stranger anymore. Naming the stranger amounts to depriving him of his strangeness and appropriating...
E-ISBN-13: 9780823249220
Print-ISBN-13: 9780823234615
Print-ISBN-10: 0823234614
Page Count: 256
Publication Year: 2011
OCLC Number: 732958802
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