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

• Druk: Lublin, 2014
• Autor: Tomasz Kitliński
• Wydawca: UMCS

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, antifascist, and queer works, including Pussy Riot’s performance art; LGBTQ visibility campaigns and exhibitions; and initiatives of rebuilding Jewish life in Lublin, Poland (Grodzka Gate-NN Theater Center, Transeuropa Festival). This book interprets intertextually passages on hospitality and utopia from the Mahabharata; the Bible; Ernst Bloch; Hannah Arendt; Maria Janion; Hélene Cixous; Adam Michnik; Martha C. Nussbaum; José Esteban Munoz; and the younger generation of Polish activists. Here is a performative book which is profound intellectually and socially engaged – for the cause of welcoming the Stranger, against prejudices and neoliberal exploitation.

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• Język wydania: polski
• ISBN: 978-83-7784-499-1
• ISBN druku: 978-83-7784-499-1
• Liczba stron: 379

CHAPTER 1. The Other Methodology of the Other   9

A Theory and Praxis of HospitALTERITY   9
Fichtean Hating versus Kantian Hosting   18
Today’s Transvalued Humanism after Anti-Humanism   28
A Philosophy of Affective Alterity: Love, Faith, and Democracy    39
Poetics and Politics. From Literary to Social Hospitality    56
Action! – After Hannah Arendt and Performative Art   64

CHAPTER 2. Interpreting Art, Interpreting Subjectivities, Interpreting Shared Life   67

Toward a Philoxenia of the Verbal and the Visual  67
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein’s Affective (Inter)textuality and (Inter)visuality   70
Of Beauty, Brain and Sacred Bodysouls: Sublimation, Mother-Daughter, and Tenderness according to Helen Chadwick   84
Alina Szapocznikow’s Vulnerable Fetishes of Her Self   97
Krystiana Robb-Narbutt’s Art: Biophilia Against Trauma    105
Women’s Theatre à la polonaise Bisexuality and Jewishness on Stage  113

CHAPTER 3. The Power of Culture and Activism against the Far Right   125

Nationalism, Economic Neo-Liberalism, and Necrophilia   131
A Successful Uprising?   141
Culture, Always Already Counterculture   145
The Art of Revolt    150
The Social Impact of Art Exhibitions   157
Intertextuality as HospitALTERITY   164
The Transeuropa Public Art Festival in the Intercultural City of Lublin  169
Hostility toward Jewishness and Interculturality   182
A Brief Literary History of Cleanliness and Abjection in Poland   189
The Power of Poetry and the Crisis of the Academy  196
Art versus Moral Revolution in Poland and the U.S   201

CHAPTER 4. The Paradox of Poland and Europe: Caught Between Hostility and Hospitality   211

A Fragile Legal and Political Context   213
Culture and Activism Strike Back   227
A Hidden His-tory: Masculinity, Hysteria, and Homosexuality  238
A History of Male Hysteria   242
Against the Philosophy of the Death Drive   251
The Birth of Homosexuality   254
A Visual Politics of Europe’s LGBTQ Visibility Campaigns   267
The Art of Imagining Futurity – after Ernst Bloch, Hannah Arendt, and Today  269
A Queer Utopia of Love   271
An LGBTQ Dream of Diversity?   280
A Queer Utopia of Childhood  283
The Future-in-Love and in-Hospitality   285

CHAPTER 5. A Political Philosophy of Hope versus Horror    291

Eastern Europe’s Tales of Terror: the Gothic Art of Paulius and Svajone Stanikas    301
Hope: the Hospitality of a New Civil Society   320
Research as Activism: Thinking, Visualizing, and Performing the Ideas and Images of the Other   326

Bibliography   333