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Author: Richard Kearney ,
Melissa Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9780823294435
ISBN 10: 0823294439
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 02 March 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
In a time of increasing hostility and suspicion of the stranger, Radical Hospitality could not be more welcome. It is descriptively rich in historical examples and concrete phenomenologies of hospitality in all its embodiments. The book goes beyond mere description to grasp the ethics of hospitable interactions, giving nuance to the ambiguities of these interactions and showing their fragility as well as their necessity. Above all, Kearney and Fitzpatrick show how effective acts of hospitality at once recognize human fragility and vulnerability and yet provide the strength and inspiration to pursue peace. --Edward S. Casey, Stony Brook University, author of The World on Edge
This book is long overdue and much needed. Highly recommended.-- Choice In a time of increasing hostility and suspicion of the stranger, Radical Hospitality could not be more welcome. It is descriptively rich in historical examples and concrete phenomenologies of hospitality in all its embodiments. The book goes beyond mere description to grasp the ethics of hospitable interactions, giving nuance to the ambiguities of these interactions and showing their fragility as well as their necessity. Above all, Kearney and Fitzpatrick show how effective acts of hospitality at once recognize human fragility and vulnerability and yet provide the strength and inspiration to pursue peace.---Edward S. Casey, Stony Brook University, author of The World on Edge,
Author Information
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.
