{"product_id":"9781845195380","title":"Spectre of the Stranger: Towards a Phenomenology of Hospitality","description":"\u003cp\u003eManu Bazzano engages with identity, otherness and ethics in a wide-ranging discussion of hospitality. Identity is examined through the experience of Buddhist meditation, understood as phenomenological enquiry, as an exploration aimed at clarifying the non-substantiality of the self, the fluid nature of identity, and the contingent nature of existence. Otherness is discussed using insights from philosophy and psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn today's world of globalized capitalism there is the spectre of the stranger, the migrant, the asylum seeker. If the 'I' comes fully into being when relating to the other, the citizen can only become a true citizen when he\/she responds adequately to the presence of the non-citizen. A self which does not respond to the other is isolated. And a citizen who fails to respond, or worse demonizes non-citizens, can he or she still be called a citizen?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book retraces the origins of collective forms of malaise such as fanatical patriotism and xenophobia, both legacies of monotheism, and looks critically at the notions of covenant, territory, kinship and nation. Symbolic and aesthetic dimensions - the revealing alternative of poetry ? open up new vistas of emancipation and radical change: Hölderlin spoke of \"dwelling poetically on this earth\". The author engages with philosophy\/religion from-antiquity till today, and from East to West, providing an historic overview of how hospitality goes to the core of psychological well-being.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sussex Academic Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046068175088,"sku":"9781845195380","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781845195380_p0.jpg?v=1763744477","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781845195380","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}