Idit Alphandary - Democracy, Dialogue, Memory: Expression and Affect Beyond Consensus

Arguing that the politics of democracy is inseparable from a notion of dialogue that emerges from conflicting and often traumatic memories, Democracy, Dialogue, Memory examines the importance of dialogue for the achievement of understanding in civil society rather than consensus, so that democratic participation and inclusion can be strengthened. With attention to the importance for marginalized communities of the ability to disclose fundamental ethnic, religious, gendered, racial, or personal and affective characteristics born of trauma, and so cease to represent otherness, this book brings together studies from Europe, Israel and the United States of literary and visual attempts to expand dialogue with the other, particularly where democracies are prone to vacillating between the desire to endorse otherness, and political dread of the other. A critique of the practices of forced inclusion and forced consensual negotiation, that seeks to advance dialogue as a crucial safeguard against the twin dangers of exclusion and enforced assimilation, Democracy, Dialogue, Memory will appeal to scholars with interests in political theory, political sociology, collective and contested memory and civil society at the same time as allowing scholars from the humanities and the arts to examine seminal chapters that pivot on psychoanalytical approaches to literature, film and philosophy at the borderline of political thinking.

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 Writingon 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.

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Expression and Affect Beyond Consensus

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Names: Alphandary, Idit, editor. | Koczanowicz, Leszek, editor.

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

Description: 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in social and political thought | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018024461| ISBN 9781138564251 (hbk) | ISBN 9781315122311 (ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: Democracy--Citizen participation. | Dialogue. | Memory.

Classification: LCC JC423 .D381245 2019 | DDC 321.8--dc23

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ISBN: 978-1-138-56425-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-12231-1 (ebk)

Idit Alphandary (Ph.D., Yale University, 2001), is a Senior Lecturer of Comparative Literature and the Interdisciplinary Program of the Arts at Tel Aviv University. She is the editor of a book collection of articles titled Consciousness Between Crysis and Empowerment: Interdisciplinary Writing on Women and Gender (Hakibutz Hameuchad Press, 2017). Her articles on the novel, film, aesthetics and psychoanalysis have appeared in leading American, European and Chinese journals, as well as in the edited volume Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image (Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2016) and in the edited volume, Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva (SUNY Press, 2009). She is completing a book manuscript, Love, Forgiveness, and Resentment. Her interdisciplinary research includes the British, French and American novel of the nineteenth century and German contemporary literature, Hollywood film and film theory, psychoanalysis and ethics in poststructuralism.

Agata Bielik-Robson is a Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Nottingham and a Professor of Philosophy at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her most recent publications include: Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity: Philosophical Marranos (Routledge, 2014); Religion of the Finite Life? Messianicity and the Right to Live in Derridas Death Penalty Seminar,