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Phenomenologies of the Stranger Series Board Jam es Bernauer Drucilla Cornell Thomas R. Flynn Kevin Hart Richard Kearney Jean-Luc Marion Adriaan Peperzak Thomas Sheehan Hent de Vries Merold Westphal Michael Zimmerman John D. Caputo, series editor PERSPECTIVES IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Blank Page Edited by RICHARD KEARNEY and KASCHA SEMONOVITCH Phenomenologies of the Stranger Between Hostility and Hospitality FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York • 2011 Copyright © 2011 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America 13 12 11 5 4 3 2 1 First edition Contents Acknowkdgments tX PRELUDE At the Threshold: Foreigners, Strangers, Others Richard Kearney and Kascha Semonovitch 3 Presentation of Texts Richard Kearney and Kascha Semonovitch 30 PART I: AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD 1 Strangers at the Edge of Hospitality Edward S. Casey 39 2 Putting Hospitality in Its Place Brian Treanor 49 3 Things at the Edge of the World David Wood 67 PART II: SACRED STRANGENESS 4 Hospitality and the Trouble with God John D. Caputo 83 vu 5 The Hospitality of Listening: A Note on Sacramental Strangeness Karmen MacKendrick 98 6 Incarnate Experience Anthony J. Steinbock 109 7 The Time of Hospitality-Again Kalpana Rahita Seshadri 126 PART III: THE UNCANNY REVISITED 8 The Null Basis-Being of a Nullity, Or Between Two Nothings: Heidegger's Uncanniness Simon Critchley 145 9 Heidegger and the Strangeness of Being William J. Richardson 155 10 Progress in Spirit: Freud and Kristeva on the Uncanny Vanessa Rumble 168 11 The Uncanny Strangeness of Maternal Election: Levinas and Kristeva on Parental Passion Kelly Oliver 196 PART IV: HosTs AND GuEsTs 12 Being, the Other, the Stranger Jean Greisch 215 13 Words of Welcome: Hospitality in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas Jeffrey Bloechl 232 14 Neither Close nor Strange: Levinas, Hospitality, and Genocide William H. Smith 242 15 Between Mourning and Magnetism: Derrida and Waldenfels on the Art of Hospitality Christopher Yates 258 16 The Stranger in the Polis: Hospitality in Greek Myth John Panteleimon Manoussakis 274 Notes 285 List of Contributors 333 Index ofN ames 337 VUl • Contents Acknowledgments We wish to express our gratitude to those who so generously helped in the preparation of this volume, especially the assistants of the Guestbook seminar and conference held at Boston College in 2009 where most of the papers in this volume were first delivered. We also wish to thank Helen Tartar at Fordham University Press whose enthusiastic support and studious attention made work on this book a privilege and a pleasure. The editing staff at Fordham has patiently attended our many revisions and delays. We would like to thank Casey Renner for contributing his photo of the U.S.-Mexican border. We appreciate that Beacon Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, HarperCollins, and Passeggiata Press have permitted us to reproduce the poems that appear throughout our volume. Finally, we would like to pay tribute with this volume to one of our special con J. tributors, William Richardson, whose ninetieth birthday was the occa sion of the "Phenomenologies of the Stranger" conference at Boston College and whose teaching and writing has inspired several generations of phenomenological thinkers in the English-speaking world. IX Blank Page