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Phenomenologies of the Stranger Between Hostility and Hospitality
edited by Ric har d Kear ney and Kas cha Se monovitc h w h a t i s s t r a n ge?
Or better, who is strange? When do we encounter the strange? This volume takes the question of hosting the Stranger to the deeper level of embodied imagination and the senses. It asks: How does the embodied imagination relate to the Stranger in terms of hospitality or hostility (given the common root of hostis as both host and enemy)? How do humans “sense” the dimension of the strange and alien in different religions, arts, and cultures? How do the five physical senses relate to the spiritual senses, especially the famous “sixth” sense, as portals to an encounter with the Other? Is there a carnal perception of alterity, which would operate at an affective, prereflective, preconscious level? What exactly do “embodied imaginaries” of hospitality and hostility entail? And what, finally, are the topical implications of these questions for an ethics and practice of tolerance and peace? 256 pages 978-0-8232-3462-2 • Paper • $26.00 (01) 978-0-8232-3461-5 • Cloth • $70.00 (06) 978-0-8232-3463-9 • eBook • $18.00 Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Aug u st
Contributors: Jeffrey Bloechl, John D. Caputo, Edward S. Casey, Simon Critchley, Jean Greisch, Richard Kearney, John Manoussakis, Karmen MacKendrick, Kelly Oliver, William J. Richardson, Vanessa Rumble, Kascha Semonovitch, Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, William H. Smith, Anthony J. Steinbock, Brian Treanor, David Wood, Christopher Yates R i c hard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair in Philosophy at Boston College and is Visiting Professor at University College Dublin. Ka s c h a S e m o n ov i tc h
is Lecturer in Philosophy at Seattle University.
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Castoriadis’s Ontology Being and Creation Su z i Adams
“Suzi Adams is the first to examine and evaluate Castoriadis’s ontological and, broadly speaking, anthropological thinking in the full complexity of its splendor. Hers is a gesture of Ariadne, because she makes the self-ascribed labyrinthine architecture of Castoriadis’s thought meaningfully tangible. Such precise and yet expansive interrogation is nowadays altogether rare.” —Stathi s Go urg o ur is, Columbia University t h i s b o o k i s t h e f i r s t s y s t e m a t i c r e c o n s t r u c t i o n o f c a s t o r i a d i s ’s p h i l o s o p h i -
c a l t r a j e c t o r y.
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
It critically interprets the shifts in his ontology by reconsidering the ancient problematic of “human institution” (nomos) and “nature” (physis), on the one hand, and the question of “being” and “creation,” on the other. Unlike the order of physis, the order of nomos has played no substantial role in the development of Western thought. The first part of the book suggests that Castoriadis sought to remedy this by elucidating the social-historical as the region of being that eludes the determinist imaginary of inherited philosophy. This ontological turn was announced in his 1975 magnum opus, The Imaginary Institution of Society. With the aid of archival sources, the second half of the book reconstructs a second ontological shift in Castoriadis’s thought that occurred during the 1980s. The author argues that Castoriadis extends his notion of “ontological creation” beyond the human realm and into nature. This move has implications for his overall ontology and signals a shift toward a general ontology of creative physis.
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224 pages 978-0-8232-3459-2 • Paper • $25.00 (01) 978-0-8232-3458-5 • Cloth • $65.00 (06) 978-0-8232-3460-8 • eBook • $18.00
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