Seminar Readings

1) Strangers, Gods, and Monsters' and 'Aliens and Others' from Richard Kearney, STRANGERS, GODS, and MONSTERS. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. 

2) 'Giving and Taking' from Emile Benveniste, INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1973. 

3) 'Hospitality' from Catherine Cornille, THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE, New York: The Crossroads Publishing Company, 2008. 

4) 'Anatheism' from Richard Kearney 

5) 'Media Fabric: Take One' from Glorianna Davenport 

SEMINAR 3: 

6) 'Strangers and Scapegoats' from Richard Kearney, STRANGERS, GODS, and MONSTERS. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. 

7) 'Lives of Infamous Men' from Michel Foucault, POWER. Trans. Robert Hurley et al. New York: New York Press, 1967. 

8) 'First Words', from Kalpana Seshadri, HUMANIMAL: TALES OF THE BIOPOLITICAL< /span> (forthcoming)

SEMINAR 4: 

9) Metaphor and Irony from Ellen Winner 

10) 'The Transcendence of the Face' from E. Levinas, TOTALITY and INFINITY. 

SEMINAR 5: 

11) Sixth Sense from Anne Davenport 

12) The Lady and the Unicorn from Kristina Gourlay 

13) The Five Senses from Nordenfalk

SEMINAR 6: 

14) Excerpt from 'On Translation' from Paul Ricoeur, ON TRANSLATION.  Trans. Eileen Brennan. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. 

15) Excerpt from 'On Hospitality' from Jacques Derrida, ON HOSPITALITY.  Trans. Rachel Bowlby.  Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. 

16) Excerpt from 'Strangers to Ourselves' from Julia Kristeva, STRANGERS to OURSELVES.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. 

17) Excerpts from 'Strangeness, Hospitality, and Enmity' from Bernhard Waldenfels, Ruhr University, STRANGENESS, HOSPITALITY, and ENMITY.  Fitzgibbons Lecture, Boston College. 13 February 2009. 

SEMINAR 7: 

18) Response to Pamela Berger by Matilda Bruckner. 

SEMINAR 8: 

19) 'Wonder-Horror' from Fanny Howe. 

PHENOMENOLOGIES OF THE STRANGER: 

20) 'Strangers at the Edge of Hospitality' by Edward Casey.