Democracy, Dialogue, Memory

Expression and Affect Beyond Consensus
Herausgeber: Alphandary, Idit; Koczanowicz, Leszek

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781138564251
• ISBN-10: 1138564257
• Artikelnr.: 54414691

Autorenporträt

Idit Alphandary is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature and the Interdisciplinary Program of the Arts at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and the editor of Consciousness Between Crisis and Empowerment: Interdisciplinary Writing on Women and Gender (2017). She is the author of numerous essays and book chapters on literature, film and visual studies seen through psychoanalysis and philosophy at the crossroads of political thought. Leszek Koczanowicz is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Wroclaw Faculty of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is the author and editor of twelve books and numerous articles in Polish and English, including Politics of Time: Dynamics of Identity in Post-Communist Poland; Politics of Dialogue: Non-Consensual Democracy and Critical Community; Discussing Modernity: A Dialogue with Martin Jay and Beauty, Responsibility, and Power: Ethical and Political Consequences of Pragmatist Aesthetics.

Inhaltsangabe

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 (Pawe¿ 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)