Toward Xenopolis

Visions from the Borderland
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-64825-035-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 236 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

Reihe: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe

Essays by a founder of the Borderland Foundation in East-Central Europe explore the meanings of community in a fractured world.

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 Czyzewski'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, Czyzewski 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, Czyzewski'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, Czyzewski hopes we can all move toward xenopolis, toward the understanding that others are, in fact, ourselves. This book offers an introduction to Czyzewski's work, with framing essays by specialists in Central and East European history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

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Czyzewski, Krzysztof

Fowler, Mayhill C

Weitere Mitwirkende

Snyder, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Timothy Snyder
Preface: Mayhill C. Fowler
Acknowledgements: Krzysztof Czyzewski
Editorial Note: Mayhill C. Fowler
Map

CONCEPTS

Xenopolis
Milosz: A Connective Tissue
Towards Deep Culture
Drama of the Polish Outsider

PLACES

Reinventing Central Europe
Czernowitz: A Forgotten Metropolis
The Spirituality of Vilnius
Between Timisoara and Târgu Mure?
Our Bosnia

PEOPLE

Sacrum, Fascism, Eliade
Jerzy Ficowski: A Reading of Ashes
Stanislaw Baranczak: 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 Grudzinska-Gross
Select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Czyzewski, Krzysztof
KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI, a writer and artist, is one of the founders of the Borderland Foundation in Sejny, Poland.

Snyder, Timothy
TIMOTHY SNYDER is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books on East and Central European history.

Fowler, Mayhill C
MAYHILL C. FOWLER is Associate Professor of History at Stetson University.