Across oceans: A conversation on otherness, hospitality and welcoming a strange God

Kearney, Richard; Veldsman, Daniël P.; Steenkamp, Yolande

doi:10.4102/aosis.2018.bk94.15

Debating Otherness With Richard Kearney: Perspectives From South Africa 2018

DOI: 10.4102/aosis.2018.bk94.15

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Across oceans: A conversation on otherness, hospitality and welcoming a strange God

Richard Kearney¹,

Daniël P. Veldsman²,

Yolande Steenkamp³

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“…Kearney specifically directs the Ricoeurean trilogy of prefiguration, configuration, and refiguration towards 'two modes of figuration -creedal transfiguration and fictional configuration' . 67 The transfiguration of any faith after faith, that is, the alteration of any faith that returns again and again, precipitates out of configurations of fiction that reiterate and revise the second naiveté. That movement results in the fictional as if, which 'opens an imaginary space … for new possibilities of epiphany and annunciation, of hospitality and caritas' .…”

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“…On the other hand, it could conceivably incite an anatheistic wagering on the possibility of a non-fictional, transformative reality of the sacred that cannot be confined to or comprehended by any transparent language or absolute experience. 68 Nevertheless, Kearney asserts that the movement from fictional configuration to creedal transformation, that is to say, from naming 'God' as if God were a character in the story or a literary cipher to committing to God as a presence or call within the structures of experience, always occurs within the restrictions of the hermeneutical circle, which itself remains both carnal and poetic. He declares that there may never be any escape from figuration.…”

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Richard Kearney has always insisted that his anatheistic approach to a phenomenology of the sacred stipulates a close connection with aesthetics. He supports this contention throughout his work by constantly referencing important artists, poets, novelists, and film makers. Indeed, this connection between aesthetics and his philosophy of religion has even motivated an anthology of articles entitled The Art of Anatheism. Consequently, in this essay I wish to expand that connection by examining the relationship between Kearney’s anatheism and the ‘supreme fiction’ of the American poet Wallace Stevens. To accomplish this expansion, I inspect several topics shared by the two authors, including God, faith, imagination, and ‘negative certainty’. This last topic forms something of the central focus of the essay, since I argue that the affirmative humility of faith professed by both never avoids the ‘void’ inherent in human existence that disallows every claim to the ‘innocence of an absolute’.

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Does meaning matter? Nietzsche, Jung and implications for global leadership

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Contribution:The article contributes from a transdisciplinary perspective to the question of meaning in leadership. Drawing from the contributions of Nietzsche and Jung, it argues that shared myth and shared meaning is vital to address the complex global challenges that leadership is called to address. This philosophical reflection on the crisis of nihilism contributes to the growing awareness in critical leadership studies that meaning-making is critical to effective leadership.

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Hospitality as a pivotal value in leadership: A transdisciplinary engagement with the case of Chief Albert Luthuli

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This article presents hospitality as a pivotal value in the context of increasing diversity that characterises the complex relations in which leadership emerges. After reviewing the concept of Otherness in philosophy, the notion of hospitality as developed by Richard Kearney in relation to his philosophy of religion (The God Who May Be) is introduced. The case of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Chief Albert Luthuli is then presented as a biographical leadership study from the African context to illustrate how hospitality as open response to radical Otherness may inspire collaboration and foster positive change. The article then addresses ways in which the notions of hospitality and Otherness present new opportunities to leadership studies for responding to the relational challenges of the globalised world. Amidst an increased scholarly focus on relationality and the need for relational intelligence, globalisation routinely confronts leaders and their followers with radical Otherness. Through dialogue between theology, philosophy of religion and leadership studies and by presenting a case from the African context, the article offers in print what is called for in the global context, namely an open response to the alterity of the Other that enables collaboration amidst increasing diversity.Contribution: Proceeding from a transdisciplinary engagement, the article illustrates that leadership studies stood to benefit from dialogue with theology and philosophy of religion, which offers ways of addressing the Otherness that characterise the globalised context of leadership.

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Across oceans: A conversation on otherness, hospitality and welcoming a strange God

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