Welcome to the open forum for the Hermeneutics of the Stranger Seminar, held in Spring 2010. This discussion is part of the ongoing debate on hospitality inaugurated by the Guestbook Project. Please feel free to post, respond, or contribute other related material.
“to look after a ‘thing’ or person in its essence means to love it, to favor it…Such favoring is the proper essence of enabling, which not only can achieve this or that but also can let something essentially unfold in its provenance, that is, let it be” (“Letter on Humanism” in Basic Writings, Harper Collins, 220)
May 4: Postmodern Strangers: On the Sublime
i Kant's Critique of Judgment (sections 23-30)* -
Sections 23-26 – Kathleen Pope
Sections 27-30 – Christopher Poulos
ii) Strangers, Gods and Monsters, ch 3: ‘Kristeva, Lyotard, Zizek’ – Zachery Smith
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