Phenomenologies of the Stranger : : Between Hostility and Hospitality / / ed. by Kascha Semonovitch, Richard Kearney.

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 en...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (362 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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