Democracy, Dialogue, Memory: Expression and Affect Beyond Consensus

ISBN-13: 9781138564251 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str.

Idit Alphandary; Leszek Koczanowicz

Opis

Arguing that that the politics of democracy is inseparable from a notion of dialogue that emerges from conflicting and often traumatic memories, this book examines the importance of dialogue for the achievement of understanding in civil society, so that democratic participation and inclusion can be strengthened.

Spis treści

Introduction: Revisitng the Political Value of Culturally Versatile Everyday Expressions of Democracy, Dialogue, Memory (Idit Alphandary and Leszek Koczanowicz);  Part One: Democracy and Memory at the Crossroads of Dialogue and Tolerance in Everyday Life  1. Everyday Dialogue, Memory, and Democracy (Leszek Koczanowicz);  2. The Idea of Tolerance and Social Dialogue in the Democratic State: Remarks on Jacques Derrida’s and Jürgen Habermas’s views on the idea of tolerance in the modern liberal-democratic state (Paweł Dybel);  3. Exception, Metaphor, and Political Action: Arendt contra Schmitt (Ewa Plonowska Ziarek);  4. Radical Politics: "We, the People" or "we mortals" (Krzysztof Ziarek);  5. Dialogue as the Tool Enhancing the Effectiveness of NGO’s Activities in Modern Societies (Tomasz Grzyb, Katarzyna Byrka and Dariusz Dolinski);  Part Two: Art and Literature as Custodians of Traumatic Memory, Resistance and Forgiveness in Democracy  6. Community at the Table (Dorota Koczanowicz);  7. The Thought from Outside: Memory, Truth and the Repetition of Faith (Ramona Fotiade);  8. You Have to Write Your Own Life: Storytelling as the Modern Piece of Resistance (Agata Bielik-Robson);  9. Duras vs. Duras: Traumatic Memory and the Question of Deferred Retroaction (Eran Dorfman);  10. The Shifting Landscape of Jewishness in Contemporary Kafka Criticism (Abraham Rubin);  11. Forgiveness, Resentment, and Responsibility are Heterogeneous to Politics W.G. Sebald’s "Max Ferber" (Idit Alphandary)