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Radical Hospitality addresses a timely and challenging subject for contemporary philosophy: the ethical responsibility of opening borders, psychic and physical, to the stranger.
Kearney and Fitzpatrick show how radical hospitality happens by opening oneself in narrative exchange to someone or something other than ourselves—by crossing borders, whether literal or figurative. Against the fears, dogmas, and demands for certainty and security that push us toward hostility, we also desire to wager with the unknown, leap into the unanticipated, and celebrate the new, a desire this book seeks to recognize and cultivate. The book contends that hospitality means chancing one's hand, one's arm, one's very self, thereby opening a vital space for new voices to be heard, shedding old skins, and welcoming new understandings.
Radical Hospitality engages with urgent moral conversations concerning identity, nationality, immigration, commemoration, and justice, moving between theory and praxis and on to the formative life of the classroom. Building on key critical debates on the question of hospitality ranging from phenomenology, hermeneutics and deconstruction to neo-Kantian moral critique and Anglo-American virtue ethics, the book explores novel possibilities for an ethics of hospitality in our contemporary world of border anxiety, refugee crises, and ecological catastrophe.
Contents
Introduction: Why Hospitality Now? 1
PART I: FOUR FACES OF HOSPITALITY: LINGUISTIC, NARRATIVE, CONFESSIONAL, CARNAL
Richard Kearney
1 Linguistic Hospitality: The Risk of Translation 17
2 Narrative Hospitality: Three Pedagogical Experiments 24
3 Confessional Hospitality: Translating across Faith Cultures 43
4 Carnal Hospitality: Gesturing beyond Apartheid 49
PART II: HOSPITALITY AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY: EXPLORING THE BORDER BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE
Melissa Fitzpatrick
5 Hospitality beyond Borders: The Case of Kant 61
6 Impossible Hospitality: From Levinas to Arendt 75
7 Teleological Hospitality: The Case of Contemporary Virtue Ethics 88
8 Hospitality in the Classroom 97
Postscript: Hospitality's New Frontier: The Nonhuman Other 105
Acknowledgments 111
Notes 113
Bibliography 137
Index 145
