W naszych zbiorach kolejna ciekawa książka, która jest (we fragmencie) lekturą obowiązkową dla naszych studentów przed nadchodzącym pierwszym wyjazdem studyjnym:
Toward Xenopolis : Visions from the Borderland / Krzysztof Czyżewski ; edited by Mayhill C. Fowler ; with an introduction by Timothy Snyder. Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2022. xxii, 211 pages ; 24 cm. Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe series, vol. 27, ISBN 9781648250354 (hardback), 9781800105300 (epub), 9781800105294 (ebook)[Call No. 46366]
Na ile zdążyłem się zorientować, to w polskich bibliotekach jeszcze nie ma wydania po angielsku, natomiast książka ukazał się wcześniej (2019) nakładem krakowskiego Międzynarodowego Centrum Kultury w serii Biblioteka Europy Środka. Dla zainteresowanych spis treści i informacje z okładki zamieszczam poniżej.
Contents: Foreword / Timothy Snyder -- Preface. Practicing the Borderland / Mayhill C. Fowler -- Acknowledgements / Krzysztof Czyżewski -- Editorial note / Mayhill C. Fowler -- I. Concepts -- Xenopolis -- Miłosz : A Connective Tissue -- Towards deep culture: a practitioner's reflections -- Drama of the Polish outsider -- II. Places -- Reinventing Central Europe -- Czerniowice/Czernivitsi/Czernowitz : a forgotten metropolis -- The spirituality of Vilnius -- Between Timisoara and Targu Mures -- Our Bosnia : Bosnia becomes ours, until it hurts -- Sacrum, Fascism, Eliade -- Jerzy Ficowski : A reading of ashes -- Stanisław Barańczak : A widening horizon -- Tony Judt : An elder brother in thinking -- Tomas Venclova : A man from the other side -- The Spirit of Truth : On essays by Irena Grudzińska-Gross.
Book Jacket: "How do we build civil society? How does a society repair itself after violence? How do we live in a world with others different from ourselves? These questions lie at the heart of Krzysztof Czyżewski's writing and his work with Fundacja Pogranicze, the Borderland Foundation, at the border of Lithuania, Poland, and Belarus. Writing from the heartland of Europe's violence and creativity, Czyżewski seeks to explain how we can relate better to each other and to our diverse communities. Building on examples of places and people in East-Central Europe, Czyżewski's essays offer readers concepts such as the invisible bridge, the nejmar (the bridge-builder), and the xenopolis (the city of others), which create community throughout the world. The three sections of the book - concepts, places, and practices - show how this cultural work bridges the divide between concepts and practices and offers a new map of Europe. Ultimately, Czyżewski hopes we can all move toward Xenopolis, toward the understanding that others are, in fact, ourselves. This book offers an introduction to Czyżewski's work, with framing essays by specialists in Central and East European history."--PUBLISHER'S NOTE.
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