Phenomenologies of the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

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. Abstract: Chiefly proceedings of a conference held in 2009 at Boston College. What is strange? Or better, who is strange? When do we encounter the strange? We encounter strangers when we are not at 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 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? Content: Prelude -- At the Threshold: Foreigners, Strangers, Others -- Presentation of Texts -- Part I: At the Edge of the World. Strangers at the Edge of Hospitality -- Putting Hospitality in Its Place -- Things at the Edge of the World -- Part II: Sacred Strangeness. Hospitality and the Trouble With God -- The Hospitality of Listening -- Incarnate Experience -- The Time of Hospitality--Again -- Part III: The Uncanny Revisited. The Null Basis-Being Of A Nullity, Or Between Two Nothings -- Heidegger and the Strangeness of Being -- Progress in Spirit -- The Uncanny Strangeness of Maternal Election -- Part IV: Hosts and Guests. Being, the Other, the Stranger -- Words of Welcome -- Neither Close Nor Strange -- Between Mourning and Magnetism -- The Stranger in the Polis. pt. 1 At the edge of the world -- pt. 2. Sacred strangeness -- pt. 3. The uncanny revisited -- pt. 4. Hosts and guests. "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)" -- Publicaciones Arquitectura y Arte Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 1 side ad gangen