Radical Hospitality

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.

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