Borders and Debordering

Eduardo Mendieta is professor of philosophy at Penn State University.Lenart Škof is professor of philosophy at the Science and Research Centre (Koper, Slovenia).Tomaž Grušovnik is assistant professor at University of Primorska.

This book addresses issues connected with political, ontological, existential, and spiritual borders that define our being-in-common. Engaging with various debordering practices relating to migration, the media, hospitality, and the more than human world, it is a timely contribution to contemporary philosophical, political, and social studies.

Tomaž Grušovnik, Eduardo Mendieta, Lenart ŠkofIntroductionPart I: Bordering TopologiesChapter 1: Edward S. CaseyMoving Over the Edge: Borders, Boundaries, and BodiesChapter 2: Mary WatkinsFrom Hospitality to Mutual Accompaniment: Addressing Soul Loss in the Citizen-NeighborChapter 3: Eduardo MendietaLethal Borders and Mobile Panopticons: Thanatological DispositifsChapter 4: Helena MotohBorders in Between-The Concept of Border(ing) in Early Chinese HistoryPart II: Debordering PraxesChapter 5: Victor ForteBuddhist Nationalism and Marginalizing Rhetoric in a Dependently Originated WorldChapter 6: Mary LeonardBorders and Debordering in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Photography: Icon, Mosaic, and FlowChapter 7: Reingard SpannringThe Chicken and the Educator: Debordering Critical Pedagogy in the AnthropoceneChapter 8: Tomaž GrušovnikDebordering Ethics: Acknowledging Animal MoralityPart III: Worlding HospitablenessChapter 9: Klaus-Gerd GiesenDebordering Academia: From the Philosophy of Hospitality to the Practice of HospitablenessChapter 10: Petri BerndtsonCultivating a Respiratory and Aerial Culture of HospitalityChapter 11: Lenart ŠkofLamentation for a Child: On Migration, Vulnerability, and Ethics of HospitalityChapter 12: Shé HawkeGraft versus Host: Waters that Convey and Harbors that Reject Liminal Subjects-Towards a New Ethics of HospitalityAbout the Contributors