Dream? Democracy! A Philosophy of Horror, Hope and Hospitality in Art and Action

Tomasz Kitliński

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Kitliński, Tomasz. Dream? Democracy! A Philosophy of Horror, Hope and Hospitality in Art and Action. Red. . Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, 2014, 377 s. ISBN 978-83-7784-499-1

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contemporary art, political philosophy, feminist and LGBT culture and rights, transregional politics, history of anti-Semitism, hospitality

Dream? Democracy! constructs a philosophy and practice of hospitality to the Other. It projects a culture and politics of welcoming the strangers, minorities, women, where art as activism plays a key part: that is why the author analyzes feminist,...

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ISBN/ISSN:

978-83-7784-499-1

DOI:

Wydawnictwo:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej

Rok wydania:

2014

Liczba stron:

377

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CHAPTER 1. The Other Methodology of the Other7
A Theory and Praxis of HospitALTERITY7
Fichtean Hating versus Kantian Hosting16
Today’s Transvalued Humanism after Anti-Humanism26
A Philosophy of Affective Alterity: Love, Faith, and Democracy37
Poetics and Politics. From Literary to Social Hospitality54
Action! – After Hannah Arendt and Performative Art62
CHAPTER 2. Interpreting Art, Interpreting Subjectivities, Interpreting Shared Life65
Toward a Philoxenia of the Verbal and the Visual65
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein’s Affective (Inter)textuality and (Inter)visuality68
Of Beauty, Brain and Sacred Bodysouls: Sublimation, Mother-Daughter, and Tenderness according to Helen Chadwick82
Alina Szapocznikow’s Vulnerable Fetishes of Her Self95
Krystiana Robb-Narbutt’s Art: Biophilia Against Trauma103
Women’s Theatre à la polonaise Bisexuality and Jewishness on Stage111
CHAPTER 3. The Power of Culture and Activism against the Far Right123
Nationalism, Economic Neo-Liberalism, and Necrophilia129
A Successful Uprising?139
Culture, Always Already Counterculture143
The Art of Revolt148
The Social Impact of Art Exhibitions155
Intertextuality as HospitALTERITY162
The Transeuropa Public Art Festival in the Intercultural City of Lublin167
Hostility toward Jewishness and Interculturality180
A Brief Literary History of Cleanliness and Abjection in Poland187
The Power of Poetry and the Crisis of the Academy194
Art versus Moral Revolution in Poland and the U.S199
CHAPTER 4. The Paradox of Poland and Europe: Caught Between Hostility and Hospitality209
A Fragile Legal and Political Context211
Culture and Activism Strike Back225
A Hidden His-tory: Masculinity, Hysteria, and Homosexuality236
A History of Male Hysteria240
Against the Philosophy of the Death Drive249
The Birth of Homosexuality252
A Visual Politics of Europe’s LGBTQ Visibility Campaigns265
The Art of Imagining Futurity – after Ernst Bloch, Hannah Arendt, and Today267
A Queer Utopia of Love269
An LGBTQ Dream of Diversity?278
A Queer Utopia of Childhood281
The Future-in-Love and in-Hospitality283
CHAPTER 5. A Political Philosophy of Hope versus Horror289
Eastern Europe’s Tales of Terror: the Gothic Art of Paulius and Svajone Stanikas299
Hope: the Hospitality of a New Civil Society318
Research as Activism: Thinking, Visualizing, and Performing the Ideas and Images of the Other324
Bibliography331

|Chapter1.TheOtherMethodologyoftheOther

Inoppositiontothestatisofthesubjectofunityandtraditionalhuman-

ism,aswellastothepostmodernﬁnitudewithnosubjectorhumanism,Julia

Kristevacreatesthenotionandthetheoryofthesubject-in-process,rework-

inghumanistideas.

Shedescribesthedynamicsofthesubject-in-processin

termsofplurality,becoming,negativity,heterogeneity,andinﬁnitude.Te

subjectappearsopenandpolyphonic,endowedbothwithsamenessand

alterity.Kristevabeginsbytheorizingliterature:

Outofallhumanactivity

,literatureseemspossiblytheleastsusceptibletobeingreducedto

Hlanguage”orHthemind”lIfitallowsforthisclaimtobesustained,thisismainlyinorderto

departfromakeystrandincontemporarythought,whichdevelopedfromaphenomenological

inspirationandwasdevelopedwithinRussianformalismandFrenchstructuralism,fromJakobson

toBarthesandKristeva;itviewsliteratureasasystemofsignsoralogicalsynthesisbasedon

thenaturallanguageandcomparablewithlanguagel58

Distancingherselffromherownsemiotics,

Kristevabelievesthatliterature

constitutesexperience,whichaltersinnerspace.Inotherwords,language

inliteraturebecomesthespaceofpassion,whereitﬁndsBeingasHsensitive

time”.Literature,intheactsofreadingandcreatingit(thedividinglineis

notﬁxed),bringsoneclosertoBeing;thisiswheresubjectivityﬂourishes.At

theheartofthehumanities,asWilhelmDiltheyteachesus,isexperience,

andexperienceisnotaboutidentity.JuliaKristevapositsherethenotion

ofplurality:ofexperience,withintra-andintersubjectivity;ofopeningup

toaloveoftheselfandtheOther,whichexcites,stimulates,dynamizes,

destabilizesandelevatestheself.TereisroomhereforErlebnis,aﬁrst-hand

livedexperienceburstinginaﬂash,andforErfahrung,thatwhichbecomes

comprehension,patientknowledge,experience.TefundamentalErlebnisand

Erfahrungofreadingis,Kristevawarns,somethingweareacutelymissing.

Readingbroadenstheinnerspace,in-space.Innerspace,intra-subjectivity,

andinnerlifearekeywordsofKristeva’shumanism,forhumanismconsists

ofself-reﬂection.TakinginspirationfromHannahArendt’sphilosophy,Julia

Kristevaadvocatesupholdingtheprincipleofhumanity-humaneness.Arendt’s

TetheoryofJuliaKristevaisthesubjectmatterofmyObcyjestwnas,butinthepresent

contributionIendeavortointerpretitinadilerentlightofanewhumanism.

JuliaKristeva,HMonstrueuseintimité(delalittératurecommeexpérience).Communicationau

NobelSymposiumLanguageandMind,”L)Infni(Paris:Gallimard),vol.48,Hiver(1994),55.

AttheheightofstructuralismandsemioticsintheWestandintheEast,therewerescholars

whopointedtothelimitationsofthesestrandsofthoughtandstressedtheneedforameth-

odologicalpluralism;theyincludeGeorgeSteiner,GabrielJosipoviciandEmmanuelLevinas

intheWest,andinPolandMariaJanion,IrenaSławińska,andAdamSchal.

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