Welcome the Other! Hospitality, Violence, and the Formation of Conscience

Authors

Manuel A. Cruz, Belmont UniversityFollow

Abstract

Hospitality, violence, and the formation of conscience constitute one of those rare topics that has occupied my thoughts since youth. In the Winter of nineteen-eighty-nine and ninety, a cascade of frenetic, revolutionary events ripped through Eastern Europe, transforming the lives of millions of ordinary people, altering the geopolitical power-structures that had been in place for over have a century – the Fall of Communism. The story I want to tell takes place at this moment in world-history and concerns the birth of conscience in the life of a fourteen year-old boy.

Keywords

Humanities Symposium

Recommended Citation

Cruz, Manuel A. (2013) "Welcome the Other! Hospitality, Violence, and the Formation of Conscience," Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal: Vol. 4, Article 8.
Available at: https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium_journal/vol4/iss1/8