Мислам, значи, го мислам другото: Деридовата поетика на гостоприемството
I Think, Therefore I Think the Other: Derrida's Poetics of Hospitality

Summary/Abstract: One of the main assumptions of Jacques Derrida’s philosophy, as well as of deconstruction as a model of thinking closely related to his work, is the attempt to think in paradoxes, in aporiae, to simultaneously think contradictory claims, thus ‘opening’ the process of thinking for the other which is foreign and impossible to the thinking process, to the future and to politics. Nevertheless, such way of thinking always poses a danger, on the one hand, of being used as an instrument for reaffi rmation of the commonsensical rational thought (logical, excluding, embracing, totalitarian) within its own limits, or, on the other hand, of being declared as a theoretically irrelevant, unsuitable in the genre, even apolitical way of thinking. In this respect, every attempt of re-defi ning and/or re-thinking of the concepts shares a similar destiny; just as every effort to bring about changes is void, or to create possibilities for the impossible, for certain indecisiveness, uncertainty and instability – for certain non-knowledge. Such insecurity and uncertainty, such approaching to a certain event can be identifi ed as the other, or as the presence of the other which always implies a risk and which destroys the very essence of ‘I’ of the one who thinks, who believes that he knows and recognizes the law (of thinking). When we comprehend something in its wholeness, we eliminate the possibility of a change; therefore, it is necessary that we do not know, that we take risks and that we have a certain decision about the answer/respond and the responsibility towards the other which is prior to our ”I” in order that a change may happen.[...]

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