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|Chapter1.TheOtherMethodologyoftheOther
psychoanalytical,feminist,queer,visualandliteraryapproachesarefollowed
inthisbook.Itstransdisciplinarityiscomplementedbyactivistinterventions
andpublicphilosophy.IseekBenjaminianandBernsteinianconstellations14
oftheexperience(Erlebnis,Erfahrung)ofhoping,hosting,hating;Iapproach
NussbaumianHpoliticalemotions.”
15
Asthisstudyrepresentsanengagement
withhumanrightsandpoliticalparticipation,itcallsforsocialchange.It
attemptstoactin-Platonically-psyche,polisandpoiesis.Itaimsatmeth-
odologicalandstylisticexperimentandexchangewiththereader.
MycasestudycoversEast-CentralEurope.Itisinthisregionthatdichoto-
miesarestrident:Self(one’sownpureandproper)versusOther;generosity
versussadomasochism;lifeversushatred;hospitalityversushostility;horror
versushope;sadomasochismversustenderness.Heraclitus,Plato,Hegel,
Freud,MelanieKleinandFrommhaveexploreddichotomies,anditistime
todevelopthisthinking.Teunderlyingdichotomyisthatofantagonism
-ofUsversusTem;thisantagonismisexaminedbyZygmuntBauman.16
HisresearchHaftertheHolocaust”17isalsoimportanttothisprojectasha-
Shoahtragicallyalectedthisregion.EasternEuropewasadeath-world18
whilelossesarestillunmourned.TatiswhyHToushaltnotkill”-thou
shaltnothate-shouldbeevenmoreimportanthereandnow.
IamalsoinspiredbyLeszekKoczanowicz’sphilosophicalreadingof
post-CommunistPoland.19HetheorizesthetemporalityofPoland’stransi-
tion,withimportantmethodologicalconsequencestoothercountries.My
timeemphasisisonveryrecenthistoryandfuturity.Likewise,Koczano-
wicz’sthemeofidentityiscontinuedhere.Iinterprettherepresentations
ofidentityinverbaland,inparticular,visualculture.Terefore,Idrawon
14
RichardJ.Bernstein,TeNewConstellation:TeEthical-PoliticalHorizonsofModernity/
Postmodernity(Cambridge:PolityPress,1991).
15
MarthaC.Nussbaum,PoliticalEmotions:WhyLoveMattersforJustice(Harvard:Harvard
UniversityPress,2013).
16
ZygmuntBauman,HUsandTem,”inTinkingSociologically(OxfordandCambridge,Mass.:
Blackwell,1990),37-53.TethinkeralsoanalyzestheissueofothernessinhistreatisePost-
modernEthics(OxfordandCambridge,Mass.:Blackwell,1993),passim.
17
ZygmuntBaumanhadtitledHSociologyaftertheHolocaust”hisessayinTeBritishJournalof
Sociology(December1988),whichlaterbecamepartofthebookModernityandtheHolocaust
(NewYork:CornellUniversityPress,1991).
18
TetermofEdithWyschogrod’sinherSpiritinAshes:Hegel,HeideggerandMan-MadeMass-
Death(NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,1985).
19
LeszekKoczanowicz,PoliticsofTime:DynamicsofIdentityinPost-CommunistPoland(New
York,Oxford:BerghahnBooks,2008).
