At the threshold

Foreigners, strangers, others

Richard Kearney, Kascha Semonovitch

3-29

Strangers at the edge of hospitality

Edward Casey

39-48

Putting hospitality in its place

Brian Treanor

49-66

Things at the edge of the world

David Wood

67-80

Hospitality and the trouble with God

John D. Caputo

83-97

The hospitality of listening

A note on sacramental strangeness

Karmen Mackendrick

98-108

Incarnate experience

Anthony Steinbock

109-125

The time of hospitality—again

Kalpana Seshadri

126-142

The null basis-being of a nullity, or between two nothings

Heidegger’s uncanniness

Simon Critchley

145-154

Heidegger and the strangeness of being

William Richardson

155-167

Progress in spirit

Freud and Kristeva on the uncanny

Vanessa Rumble

168-195

The uncanny strangeness of maternal election

Levinas and Kristeva on parental passion

Kelly Oliver

196-212

Words of welcome

Hospitality in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas

Jeffrey Bloechl

232-241

Neither close nor strange

Levinas, hospitality, and genocide

William H. Smith

242-257

Between mourning and magnetism

Derrida and Waldenfels on the art of hospitality

Christopher Yates

258-273

The stranger in the polis

Hospitality in Greek myth

John Manoussakis

274-284

Notes

List of contributors

Index of names