Radical Hospitality
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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.
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Richard Kearney. Radical Hospitality
Contents
Introduction
Contemporary Conversations on Hospitality
Phenomenology of the Gift
Toward a Gift Economy
A Postapocalyptic Culture of Welcome
Presentation of Parts and Chapters
PART I. Four Faces of Hospitality
1. Linguistic Hospitality
2. Narrative Hospitality
Guestbook: Exchanging Stories, Changing Histories
Twinsome Minds: Crossing Narratives of a Divided History
The Irish Famine Memorial, New York: Hosting Trauma
Appendix: Ethics, Narrative, and Memory
3. Confessional Hospitality
4. Carnal Hospitality
PART II. Hospitality and Moral Psychology
5. Hospitality beyond Borders
Toward Perpetual Peace
Sharing the World with Others
Freedom and Desire
6. Impossible Hospitality
Originary Hospitality
The “Subject” as Sensibility
Natal Hospitality
7. Teleological Hospitality
Desire and “Unselfing”
Goodness Is Hospitality
8. Hospitality in the Classroom
The Socratic Model of Learning
Renewing a Common World
Postscript
Acknowledgments
Notes. Introduction: Why Hospitality Now?
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
5. Hospitality beyond Borders: The Case of Kant
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
Bibliography
Index
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Radical Hospitality
James Bernauer
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An economy of hospitality, in sum, is one that values abundance over affluence, gratuity over greed, compassion over unfettered consumption, goods over commodities. Rohr cites the following critique of free enterprise capitalism: “While it is good at generating wealth is it is not so good at spreading it around … the profit motif appeals to our acquisitive nature. It nourishes greed and can make us callous to the suffering of others.… Left to its own devices, free enterprise capitalism would ruin the environment and let people starve … (so) while it may be a remarkable engine for driving economic growth, an engine is not the same as a steering wheel.”16 The steering wheel, Richard Rohr and Arthur Simon agree, should be a gift economy based on public justice and affording priority to the principle of sufficiency over scarcity.
Ironically, one of the theological virtues of gift economies is not only to restore a positive incarnate “materiality” of giving and receiving, hosting and guesting, but also to confirm some of the most radical material findings of modern science. For contrary to a conventional scientific understanding of nature as competitive, more recent discoveries of astrophysics and microphysics reveal a powerful role for mutuality, synergy, coexistence, and cooperation. Survival of the fittest is being replaced with survival of the most hospitable!17 So what might first appear as a mere utopian ideal or messianic promise is in fact a view of things that consorts with the deepest workings of our physical universe. A gift economy may not be so “impossible” after all.
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