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No. 6 (2003)

ER(R)GO nr 6 (1/2003) - dilemmas of multiculturality/dire straits of identity

Er(r)go,

culture
cultures culturalism multiculturalism transculturalism localization globalization glocalization other others otherness

I
thou
third

i.e. whatever concers difference, identity, and the spaces that encompass them (Ewa Kosowska). These relations, however, are no longer accommodable in the cosy inside of a home, nor is the outside sufficient for them. What is needed is the "third space": "a peculiar kind of hybridization in effect of which the real space and its simulations [...] become inseparable." We may be shocked by the "end of old ontologies of space," but we at the same time realize the necessity of working out "new, critical ontologies" (Ewa Rewers). Otherness forces us not only into an endeavor of understanding, but also into a toil and privilege of tolerance. Life certainly would be easier if no thought of "human waste," of the refuse of social order disturbed our peace of mind (Zygmunt Bauman). There would be no need to cover one's eyes to avoid the sight of the human garbage, or to clean one's conscience by means of social sanative practices. Yet tolerance should not become a blindfold preventing us from seeing that none of the inhabitants of cultural spaces is free from ethical obligations. Identity is a task: it is becoming obliged with respect to the other, but also giving the other an obligation (Wojciech Kalaga). The suffering and misery of the third must not become the price for the care for the other. A dilemma then arises in macrosocial terms (Andrzej Szahaj; Edward Możejko): assimilation (the melting pot), i.e. the possibility of oppression and symbolic violence, or multiculturalism (the salad bowl), but also the aporias of equality, hierarchy, axiology, and the possibility of political deviations, masochistic self-castigation and exultation over any mediocrity of otheress? Hybrid questions, hybrid answers.

A new section introduced in this issue opens its boundaries to past themes (continuations: an essay by Grażyna Gajewska returns to the theme of history), to future themes (anticipations: Bartosz Kuźniarz evokes Luhmann's theory) and to themes having no relations to any of those themes (varia).

Wojciech Kalaga

Number of Publications: 21

Full issue

ER(R)GO nr 6 (1/2003)

Redakcja Er(r)go
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003


editorial pages



editorial

Er(r)rgo...

Wojciech Kalaga
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract


studies and essays

On the Exigencies of Identity in a Tight World

Zygmunt Bauman
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract

The Spaces of Identity

Ewa Kosowska
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract

The Ideology of Multiculturalism — a Philosophical and Political Context

Andrzej Szahaj
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract

Transculturalism or Glocalism? Two Discourses on the Postmodern Condition

Ewa Rewers
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract

A Great Chance or an Illusion. Multiculturalism in the Age of Postmodernity

Edward Możejko
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract

The Obligation of the Other. The Third

Wojciech Kalaga
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract


varia - follow-ups and anticipations

The Sym-bolon of history and myth

Grażyna Gajewska
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract

The Rehabilitation of the Spirit

Bartosz Kuźniarz
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract


commentaries and debates

The Greed for Authenticity and Multiculturalism

Monika Bakke
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract

The Anthropologist in a Closed Circle of Imputation

Ewa Bińczyk
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract


reviews

A Surprisingly Correct Professional

Leszek Drong
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract

From Practice to Theory: In Search of a Method

Marzena Kubisz
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract

An Observer of Dispersed Discourses

Ewa Wójtowicz
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract

A Moment’s Master’s Work

Zuzanna Szatanik
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract

The Pressure of Time: On the „European Manifestos of the Cinema”

Paweł Jędrzejko
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract


notes on books

Critical notes on books

Paweł Jędrzejko
Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract


summaries in english/streszczenia w języku angielskim

Summaries of the feature texts of the issue.

Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract


colophon

Colophon

Language: PL | Published: 01-01-2003 | Abstract


No. 49 (2024)
Published: 2024-12-30


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Logo DOI 10.31261/errgo

Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

Licence CC
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