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ATheoryandPraxisofHospitALTERITY
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AmeliaJonesandGriseldaPollock’stheorizationsaswellasonPiotrPio-
trowski’sanalysesofartinEasternEurope.Tevisionsofdemocracyare
shapedbytheconceptofactioninHannahArendtandherpublicsphereof
self-governingcouncils;democracyinthediscussionofClaudeLefort20and
JacquesDerrida’sdemocratieàvenir21arefollowed.DerridafollowsKant’s
hospitality:ImmanuelKant,thisEastEuropean,wascosmopolitan.Not
soFichtewhosenationalismhasdominatedlesimaginairessociaux22ofour
region.Democraticdreamsaredevelopedtodaybytheregion’spublicintel-
lectualsandculturalcommentators:MariaJanion,MichalGlowinski,Agnes
Heller,AdamMichnikandGyorgyKonrad.Researchintothetransition
isvital:theworkofClausOle,DavidOst,ElzbietaMatynia,andTadeusz
Kowalik.Publicengagementfordemocracyandtheorizationsarerepresented
globallybyMarthaC.Nussbaum,JuliaKristeva,CornelWest,andSimon
Critchley.UtopichopeisprovidedbyErnstBloch,andJoséEstebanMuñoz.
Followingthem,Iamdevelopingherethepoliticalphilosophyofhospitality
asresistancetoprejudicesandhatreds,andaspracticeofwelcomingtheOther.
Inthismonograph,Iattempttosynthesizeanalternativewritingstructure-
withamessageofhospitALTERITY.Oftentimes,inaquasi-Joyceanfashion,
astheReaderundoubtedlynotices,myself-avowedlyintertextualwriting
drawsonLévi-Straussianbricolage,oncross-referencingtheselfandthe
shelf,onsamplingmyselfandmyreadings-through-rewritings,onon-and-
onremixing,andonon-and-olreturnstopastpassages.TatishowItag
mytext;thatishowItagalong-inthewakeofthestyleofFrenchtheory.
PropoundedintheMahabharata,theBible,theKoran,Homerand
Kant,theideaofhospitalityhasbeenrevivedbyEmmanuelLevinas,Jacques
Derrida,ZygmuntBauman,CezaryWodziński,HélèneCixousandJulia
Kristeva.Tepoliticalphilosophyofhospitalityimpliesanintercultural
coexistenceofdilerentcommunities,subjectivities,alterities,strangeness-
es.Ourregioniscaughtbetweenhostilityandhospitality.Post-Auschwitz,
post-GulagEasternEuropeissteepedintheviolenceoffar-rightideology,
bututopianartasactivismandactivistresearchismounting.
20
AnimportantreferencetothetheoryofLefortismadeinLeszekKoczanowicz,Lęknowoczesny:
Esejeodemokracjiijejadwersarzach(Kraków:Universitas,2011),117-118.
21
LeszekKoczanowicz,Lęknowoczesny:Esejeodemokracjiijejadwersarzach(Kraków:Univer-
sitas,2011),62-64.
22
IborrowthistermfromBronisławBaczko,LesImaginairessociaux:Mémoiresetespoirscollectifs
(Paris:Payot,1984).