Democracy, dialogue, memory : expression and affect beyond consensus / edited by Idit Alphandary and Leszek Koczanowicz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alphandary, Idit, editor.

Koczanowicz, Leszek, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in social and political thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Citizen participation.

Democracy.

Dialogue.

Memory.

Physical Description:

xi, 191 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction: revisitng the political value of culturally versatile everyday expressions of democracy, dialogue, memory / Idit Alphandary and Leszek Koczanowicz

Democracy and memory at the crossroads of dialogue and tolerance in everyday life

Everyday dialogue, memory, and democracy / Leszek Koczanowicz

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 / Pawel Dybel

Exception, metaphor, and political action: arendt contra Schmitt / Ewa Plonowska Ziarek

Radical politics : "we, the people" or "we mortals" / Krzysztof Ziarek

Dialogue as the tool enhancing the effectiveness of NGO's activities in modern societies / Tomasz Grzyb, Katarzyna Byrka and Dariusz Dolinski

Art and literature as custodians of traumatic memory, resistance and forgiveness in democracy

Community at the table / Dorota Koczanowicz

The thought from outside memory, truth and the "repetition of faith" / Ramona Fotiade

"You have to write your own life" : storytelling as the modern piece of resistance / Agata Bielik-Robson

Duras vs. Duras : traumatic memory and the question of deferred retroaction / Eran Dorfman

The shifting landscape of Jewishness in contemporary Kafka criticism / Abraham Rubin

Forgiveness, resentment, and responsibility are heterogeneous to politics W.G. Sebald's Max Ferber / Idit Alphandary

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138564251

1138564257

OCLC:

1047531211