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|Chapter1.TheOtherMethodologyoftheOther
Ages.Educationwasmadethelocomotiveofnationalism.Tenineteenth
centuryreducedresearchinEurope,andinparticularinthethennon-existent
Poland,andshiftedtheemphasistooneofteachingtheHdocilebodies”of
anation-state(animaginary,andassuchmorepowerfulone,inthecaseof
Poland)intheoneandonlyspirit.Whatwillbecomeofapuzzleofdiversity
without,andaconsciousnessofadiversitywithin,apolylogicinnerlife?
ComingfromtheHOtherEurope,”IstandagainstaHFortressEurope”
andwouldjoinHabermasinanadvocacyofthewelfarestateonasuprana-
tionallevelwith-inKristeva’sterminology-apublicrealmofgenerosity.
However,morethantheFrankfurtphilosopher,sheinsistsoncultivatingthe
innerexperience.Itisimportanttosupplementtheconceptsofidentitarian
membership(nationality,citizenship)withthenotionofuniversalsubjecthood
andputitintopractice.AnymembershipwouldbethenamatterofaRena-
niandailyplebiscite.Ifonlycitizenshipweretobedeterminedbychoice,and
notbybloodnorsoil.Here,SelbstgesetzgebungjoinsStoiccosmopolitanism.
Toaccomplishtheirunendingsynthesis,weneedtogothroughaprocessof
openandpublicdialogue.Inbecomingworldcitizens,wehaveachanceto
activateourcitizenshipassuch.Incrisisandbecauseofitscrisis,citizenship
mayserveustocareforourselvesandothers.Asheterogeneoussubjects,we
aredoomedtocontinue,andwedesiretocontinue,politics.Forthetimebe-
ing,weareoutsidewars,militiathreats,famineorhateattacks,butforhow
long?Inordertosurviveandtohelpotherssurviveweareinneedofacaring
subjectivity-in-processwithinthepublicsphere;thismaybewarrantedby
aStoicorKantiancitizenshipoftheworld,whichwouldnotneglectdiversity
andinteriority,ratherthanbyaninveteratenationalmembership.Ipostu-
latebeing(withnoreferencetoHeidegger’sSeyn)-insteadofbelonging.
Aforward-lookingintellectual,ZygmuntBauman,isinspiredbyKant’s
ZumewigenFriedenanditspleaforhospitality;Baumanconstructsanew
cosmopolitanism.Ialsotrytoargueandactforhospitality:inLublinIcoordi-
natedTranseuropaFestival(describedindetailinchapterthree)withChechen
refugees,unorthodoxartists,feminists,andqueeractivists.Awholesection
oftheFestivalwasdevotedtoJewishLublin.AmongourguestswasIrena
Grudzińska-Gross,who(withJanT.Gross)haswrittenabook,published
byOxfordUniversityPress,GoldenHarvestaboutthePolishindilerenceto
theHolocaust;perhapsthat’swhyIfoundmymug-shotonahostileposter,
producedinJanuary2014byneo-Nazisinmycity,whichsaid:HRunoutof
Lublin!”Otherpeoplepresentedthere,unwantedinthecity,were:theactivist