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.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780823294442
Publisert
2021
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Fordham University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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