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rangefromTeodorW.Adorno’sworkonprejudicesandSartreanHetiol-
ogyofhate”toZygmuntBauman’sworkonanti-SemitismandonEurope’s
needformigrants.MyreflectionwillincludethediagnosisofSlavojŽižek
(theworkoftheBritishhumangeographerJonBinnieisalsoreminiscentof
this)whoclaimsthatlatecapitalismincorporatestheexcludedgroups,but
dividesthemaccordingtogender,race,andsexualityandsoon.However,
myambitionistobeasinclusiveaspossible.AndhereIaminspiredbythe
defenseofuniversalisminsuchdiversethinkersasJürgenHabermas,Seyla
Benhabib,andJuliaKristeva.Idonotwanttoexcludeordivideidentities,but
usetheinclusivenotionofsubjectivity,ashospitalitywelcomesallsubjectivity.
Itwouldbeagoodrhetoricalandsubstantialstrategytopluralizehos-
pitality.MarthaC.Nussbaumarguesthatltherightsoflesbiansandgays
areacentralissueofjusticeforourtime’.7Ifeelahistoricalnecessitytoadd
otherlOthers’toNussbaum’sassertion.Myworkwillalsodrawontheat-
temptofLevinasandDerridatoconstructaplaceofmeeting,thinkingand
shelteringothernessintheideaoftheopencity(villefranche)orrefugecity
(villerefuge),inspiredbytheHebrewBibleandimpactingoncontemporary
artists.SimonCritchleyandRichardKearneydefinethiscityasaspace
wherelmigrantsmayseeksanctuaryfromthepressuresofpersecution,in-
timidation,andexile’.8Also,fromadilerentphilosophicalposition,Jürgen
HabermasendorsesDerrida’sconceptofhospitality.
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Suchcontributionswill
allowmetoconstructamoresophisticatedframeworkforunderstanding
therealitiesoflOtherness’.
Tus,thisstudyexaminesdichotomiessuchasself-other,identity-alterity,
exclusion-inclusion,abjection-acceptance,hostility-hospitality,static-dynamic.
TeissueoftheOtherhasbeentheorisedinphilosophyfromGeorgWilhelm
FriedrichHegelthroughMikhailBakhtin10(hisStrangerorčužoj),Alex-
andreKojève,SimonedeBeauvoirtoJacquesDerrida,andJuliaKristeva,
butitisstillanurgentrequirementtotackletheseproblemsinthesocial
andculturalpracticeoftoday.Tedualismofhostilityandhospitalitywas
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MarthaC.Nussbaum,HLesbianandGayRights”,inTePhilosophyofHumanRights,edited
byPatrickHayden(St.Paul:ParagonHouse,2001),595.
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SimonCritchleyandRichardKearney,HPreface”inJacquesDerrida,OnCosmopolitanismand
Forgiveness(LondonandNewYork:Routledge,2004)vii-xii.
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LasseTomassen(ed.),TeDerridaHabermasReader,EdinburghUniversityPress,Edin-
burgh2002,208-227.
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LeszekKoczanowiczdevelopstheBakhtinianideasofdialogismHDialogiantagonism”inLęk
nowoczesny,111-129.