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|Chapter1.TheOtherMethodologyoftheOther
subjectivity,inthelivedexperiencesofhostilities(horror)versushospitality,
andutopianhopeforalterityversusinjustices.Tethinkingstyle(Denkstil)
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employedhereowesmuchtorecentFrenchandCentral-EastEuropean
theoryasthisbookisindebtedtotheoeuvreofAgnesHeller,JacquesDer-
rida,MariaJanion,ClaudeLefort,ZygmuntBauman,HélèneCixous,Julia
Kristeva,LeszekKoczanowicz,RenataSalecl,Miloslav(Milan)Petrusek,
EwaMajewska,andJanSowa.Tewritingstyle,too,isintentionallyinter-
textual,fragmentaryandfleeting,alliedtocontemporaryartandliterature.
Alongsidetoday’sculture,aphilosophyofdemocracyisattheheartofthis
bookwhileIseekdemocraticdreams-againstthehorror.
MykeyquestionbeginswithaKantianandDworkinianphrasewiemöglich:
Howpossibleisdemocracy:thisformoflifewhichweshoulddaretobuild
fully?TequestionisalsoDerrideanandposed-intheirownidiosyncratic
wayonbothsidesoftheAtlantic-bySeylaBenhabib,RichardJ.Bernstein,
CornelWest,LeszekKoczanowicz,andSimonCritchley:Whatisadémocra-
tieàvenir,ifafuturityistosucceed(initsdoublesense)?Here,mypoetics
andpoliticsendeavortomeettheurgentneedsofourpost-postmodernity:
forBeingOtherwiseandTogetherandagainstStrictBelonging;standing
againstagainstscientisticanddisciplinarianprejudices.Atthesametime,
anemphasisislaidonpublicphilosophyandpraxis,actionandactivism.
Tisbookdealswiththequestionsofhostileversushospitablerepre-
sentationoftheOtherintoday’sCentral-EasternEurope,particularlyin
Poland.Mystudyhasculminatedtheresearchintoprejudicedrepresen-
tationsofotherness,withtheaimofusingmulti-disciplinaryinsightsto
constructandadvocatemoresophisticatedandwelcomingrepresentations
oftheOtherfoundeduponnotionsofhospitality.Tesewillbedeveloped
withtheintentionofmakingagenuinecontributiontosocialandcultural
policy-makinginPoland,andbeyond.
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IproposetotranslateFleck’sDenkstilaslstyleofthinking’orlthinkingstyle’(withadynamic
gerund),insteadofthestandardrenderingofthisasalltoostaticlthoughtstyle’.LudwikFleck,
EntstehungundEntwicklungeinerwissenschaftlichenTatsache.EinführungindieLehrevomDenk-
stilundDenkkollektiv(Basel:BennoSchwabeundCo.,1935);LudwikFleck,Psychosocjologia
poznanianaukowego:Powstanieirozwójfaktunaukowegoorazinnepismazflozofipoznania,
editedbyZdzisławCackowskiandStefanSymotiuk(Lublin:WydawnictwoUniwersytetu
MariiCurie-Skłodowskiej,2006).TetheoryofFleck,1945-1950lectureratmyCurieUni-
versityand1950-1952atLublinMedicalSchool,couldnothavebeenmoreimportanttothis
monograph.LocalarchivalmaterialandoralhistoryonthisoutstandingJewish-Polish-Israeli
scholar,gatheredtogetherbyWiolaWejman,aretobefoundatwww.ludwikfleck.teatrnn.pl.