Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. PRELUDE
5. At the Threshold 1
6. Presentation of Texts 30
7. PART I: AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
8. 1 Strangers at the Edge of Hospitality 37
9. 2 Putting Hospitality in Its Place 49
10. 3 Things at the Edge of the World 67
11. PART II: SACRED STRANGENESS
12. 4 Hospitality and the Trouble with God 81
13. 5 The Hospitality of Listening 98
14. 6 Incarnate Experience 109
15. 7 The Time of Hospitality—Again 126
16. PART III: THE UNCANNY REVISITED
17. The Null Basis-Being of a Nullity, Or Between Two Nothings 143
18. 9 Heidegger and the Strangeness of Being 155
19. 10 Progress in Spirit 168
20. 11 The Uncanny Strangeness of Maternal Election 196
21. PART IV: HOSTS AND GUESTS
22. 12 Being, the Other, the Stranger 213
23. 13 Words of Welcome 232
24. 14 Neither Close nor Strange 242
25. 15 Between Mourning and Magnetism 258
26. 16 The Stranger in the Polis 274
27. Notes 285
28. Contributors 333
29. Index of Names 337