Becoming Stranger:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Becoming Stranger: "
Joshua Mills-Knutsen

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081471
Doc. No	:	LA125100
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156852910X529304‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Joshua Mills-Knutsen
Title & Author	:	Becoming Stranger: [Article] : Defending the Ethics of Absolute Hospitality in a Potentially Hostile World\ Joshua Mills-Knutsen
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2010
Volume/ Issue Number	:	14/5
Page No	:	522–533
Abstract	:	Richard Kearney describes Derrida’s ethics of absolute hospitality as a “fine lesson in tolerance but not necessarily moral judgment.” This paper takes on Kearney’s insistence that ethics requires at least minimal practical discernments of the approaching other in order to safeguard the self in a hostile world. By examining Derrida’s phenomenological investigation into hospitality and combining his conclusions with the ethical practices of desert nomads and ethical luminaries such as Gandhi, this paper unveils that ethics at its heart is a call to vulnerability. As such, any assertion of a power to judge the other is already a violation of the ethical call. Kearney’s search for an ethics of phronetic judgments, no matter how tentative, is challenged as ultimately a desire to eliminate the very vulnerability that makes us human. Richard Kearney describes Derrida’s ethics of absolute hospitality as a “fine lesson in tolerance but not necessarily moral judgment.” This paper takes on Kearney’s insistence that ethics requires at least minimal practical discernments of the approaching other in order to safeguard the self in a hostile world. By examining Derrida’s phenomenological investigation into hospitality and combining his conclusions with the ethical practices of desert nomads and ethical luminaries such as Gandhi, this paper unveils that ethics at its heart is a call to vulnerability. As such, any assertion of a power to judge the other is already a violation of the ethical call. Kearney’s search for an ethics of phronetic judgments, no matter how tentative, is challenged as ultimately a desire to eliminate the very vulnerability that makes us human.
Descriptor	:	absolute hospitality
Descriptor	:	ethics
Descriptor	:	Jacques Derrida
Descriptor	:	nomadic ethics
Descriptor	:	phronetic judgments
Descriptor	:	Richard Kearney
Descriptor	:	vulnerability
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156852910X529304‬