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Book SynopsisRadical Hospitality addresses a timely and challenging subject for contemporary philosophy: the ethical responsibility of opening borders, psychic and physical, to the stranger. The book engages urgent moral conversations concerning identity, nationality, immigration, peace, and justice for the work of living together.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
