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|Chapter1.TheOtherMethodologyoftheOther
hospitalityisHatasktowelcomestrangersbeyonddutyandlaw”(MartinBeck
Matustik).48Citizenshipisnotenough;refugeesandallmigrantsshouldbe
respected,loved-andoughttoparticipate.Dream?Hospitabledemocracy
beyondborders!Teothersolidarity49fortheOtherł
Today’sTransvaluedHumanismafterAnti-Humanism
Oh!Foucaultisright,inhisownview
,whenheenvisagesthedemiseofman,hisgradualera-
surelYes,manisindeederased,butonlyfromthestrictlydefinedfieldofFoucault’stheory
lBut
whatisaformulaifnotamereformula?Watch,gentlemen,sothattheholewhichappearsin
yourreasoningdoesnotswallowyouwholelInhardsciences,onecanreasonagainsteveryday
reality
,personalreality
,themostobviousreality;notsointhehumanitieslHere,thismethod
willputyou,Ifear,inanembarrassingandartificialsituation,andyoushallbeforceddayand
nighttobelieyourtheorywithyourpraxisl50
Intheforewordtohis1966studyTeOrderofTings:AnArchaeologyofthe
HumanSciences(Lesmotsetleschoses:Unearchéologiedesscienceshumaines)
MichelFoucaultdiagnosestheabsenceofthesubjectinDiegoVelázquez’s
paintingLasMeninas.
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TeobjectiveofFoucauldiangenealogyistodemon-
stratethatthehumanbeingisaninventionofthehumanities.Henotes:HIt
iscomforting,however,andasourceorprofoundrelieftothinkthatmanis
onlyarecentinvention[ł]andthathewilldisappearagainassoonasour
knowledgehasdiscoveredanewform.”
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Inacommentrepresentativeof
thereceptionofFoucault’sclaims,ahistorianofideasstressesHthedecline
of[ł]thehumanistconceptofMan.Hostilitytothetraditionalnotionsof
visualprimacyandthecritiqueofhumanismwereintricatelylinkedinthe
workthatmostvividlyestablishedFoucault’scredentialsasananti-humanist,
namelyinTeOrderofTings.Significantly,theworkbeginswithoneof
48
MartinBeckMatustik,HBetweenHopeandTerror:DerridaandHabermasPleadfortheIm/
Possible,”inLasseTomassen(ed),TeDerrida-HabermasReader(Edinburgh:Edinburgh
UniversityPress,2006),288.
49
Cf.RainerZoll,WasistSolidaritätheute?(FrankfurtamMain:Suhrkamp,2000);Zygmunt
Bauman,HSolidarity:AWordinSearchofFlesh,”http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2013-
05-08-bauman-en.html(Accessed14February2014).
50
WitoldGombrowicz,HByłempierwszymstrukturalistą,”inGombrowiczflozof(Kraków:Znak,
1991),148.TranslatedherefromthePolishbyMałgorzataPaprotaandBartoszWójcik.
51
MichelFoucault,TeOrderofTings:AnArchaeologyoftheHumanSciences(Londonand
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NewYork:Routledge,2003.
Ibid.,xxv.
