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. 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? Frontmatter Acknowledgments (page ix) PRELUDE At the Threshold: Foreigners, Strangers, Others (Richard Kearney and Kascha Semonovitch, page 3) Presentation of Texts (Richard Kearney and Kascha Semonovitch, page 30) PART I: AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD 1 Strangers at the Edge of Hospitality (Edward S. Casey, page 39) 2 Putting Hospitality in Its Place (Brian Treanor, page 49) 3 Things at the Edge of the World (David Wood, page 67) PART II: SACRED STRANGENESS 4 Hospitality and the Trouble with God (John D. Caputo, page 83) 5 The Hospitality of Listening: A Note on Sacramental Strangeness (Karen MacKendrick, page 98) 6 Incarnate Experience (Anthony J. Steinbock, page 109) 7 The Time of Hospitality-Again (Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, page 126) PART III: THE UNCANNY REVISITED 8 The Null Basis-Being of a Nullity, Or Between Two Nothings: Heidegger's Uncanniness (Simon Critchley, page 145) 9 Heidegger and the Strangeness of Being (William J. Richardson, page 155) 10 Progress in Spirit: Freud and Kristeva on the Uncanny (Vanessa Rumble, page 168) 11 The Uncanny Strangeness of Maternal Election: Levinas and Kristeva on Paternal Passion (Kelly Oliver, page 196) PART IV: HOSTS AND GUESTS 12 Being, the Other, the Stranger (Jean Greisch, page 215) 13 Words of Welcome: Hospitality in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (Jeffrey Bloechl, page 232) 14 Neither Close nor Starnge: Levinas, Hospitality, and Genocide (William H. Smith, page 242) 15 Between Mourning and Magnetism: Derrida and Waldenfels on the Art of Hospitality (Christopher Yates, page 258) 16 The Stranger in the Polis: Hospitality in Greek Myth (John Panteleimon Manoussakis, page 274) Notes (page 285) List of Contributors (page 333) Index of Names (page 337) "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