Kearney / Fitzpatrick Radical Hospitality

From Thought to Action
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8232-9444-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten

Reihe: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Radical 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kearney, Richard

Fitzpatrick, Melissa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Kearney Richard:
Richard Kearney is Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and author and editor of more than forty books on contemporary philosophy and culture. He is founding editor of the Guestbook Project and has been engaged in developing a postnationalist philosophy of peace and empathy over several decades. His most relevant books on this subject include Strangers, Gods and Monsters (2001), Postnationalist Ireland (1998), Hosting the Stranger (2012), Phenomenologies of the Stranger (2010), Imagination Now (2019), and Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense (2021).Fitzpatrick Melissa:
Melissa Fitzpatrick is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Ethics for the Portico Program in Boston College’s Carroll School of Management and the Director of Pedagogy for Guestbook Project. Her research focuses on the intersection between contemporary virtue ethics and post-Kantian continental philosophy. She has also done integrated teaching, research, and community outreach in pre-college philosophy in the Mississippi Delta and on the Mexican–American border in El Paso, Texas.Richard Kearney (Author)
Richard Kearney is Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and author and editor of more than forty books on contemporary philosophy and culture. He is founding editor of the Guestbook Project and has been engaged in developing a postnationalist philosophy of peace and empathy over several decades. His most relevant books on this subject include Strangers, Gods and Monsters (2001), Postnationalist Ireland (1998), Hosting the Stranger (2012), Phenomenologies of the Stranger (2010), Imagination Now (2019), and Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense (2021).

Melissa Fitzpatrick (Author)
Melissa Fitzpatrick is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Ethics for the Portico Program in Boston College’s Carroll School of Management and the Director of Pedagogy for Guestbook Project. Her research focuses on the intersection between contemporary virtue ethics and post-Kantian continental philosophy. She has also done integrated teaching, research, and community outreach in pre-college philosophy in the Mississippi Delta and on the Mexican–American border in El Paso, Texas.