Radical hospitality : from thought to action / Richard Kearney and Melissa Fitzpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kearney, Richard, author.

Fitzpatrick, Melissa, author.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy.

Perspectives in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitality--Moral and ethical aspects.

Hospitality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 128 p..)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Fordham University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

6. Impossible Hospitality: From Levinas to Arendt

7. Teleological Hospitality: The Case of Contemporary Virtue Ethics

8. Hospitality in the Classroom

Postscript. Hospitality's New Frontier: The Nonhuman Other

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Series List

Intro

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction. Why Hospitality Now?

Part I: Four Faces of Hospitality: Linguistic, Narrative, Confessional, Carnal

1. Linguistic Hospitality: The Risk of Translation

2. Narrative Hospitality: Three Pedagogical Experiments

3. Confessional Hospitality: Translating across Faith Cultures

4. Carnal Hospitality: Gesturing beyond Apartheid

Part II: Hospitality and Moral Psychology: Exploring the Border between Theory and Practice

5. Hospitality beyond Borders: The Case of Kant

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-9444-7

OCLC:

1235594644